Elon Musk and many world celebrities from the artistic and business world are spending Halloween in Romania at Bran Castle

By RBJ
Some of the world’s richest people, including Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk and famous artists such as Angelina Jolie, will attend a VIP Halloween party at Bran Castle in Transylvania, Romania.
According to the local newspaper ziare.com, the party will include Sergey Brin (founder of Google), Luke Nosek (co-founder of PayPal), Steve Jurvetson (founder of Hotmail and current board member of Space X), Larry Page (co-founder of Google), as well as several celebrities from the art world.
Peter Thiel, founder of PayPal, and billionaire Matt Danzeisen have arrived in Romania by private plane and checked into a luxury hotel in the capital.
The party would be organized by the owner of Bran Castle, Archduke Dominic von Habsburg.
According to another Romanian newspaper, gandul.ro, more than 200 important people have announced their participation in this event. This makes it probably the most important event of its kind in Romania. The title in Gandul.ro, suggested that the Tesla owner would have rented the castle for the event.
The event will be attended by business leaders, artists, producers, etc.
The guests would have been picked up from the official lounge and transported to a luxury hotel in the capital’s center, Bucharest.
According to mediaflux.ro, the organizers wanted to keep the event secret, but it leaked. On the link, you will see several celebrities traveling to their accommodation in Romania’s capital.
Built on a rock, Bran Castle currently houses the Bran Museum, a museum that stretches over its four floors. Every year, tourists from all over the world arrive here in search of the legend of Count Dracula, and the guide emphasizes his mythical side. The history of Bran Castle fascinates them alike.
The first documentary attestation of Bran Castle is represented by a deed issued on November 19, 1377 from the King Ludovic I of Anjou. Through this document, the inhabitants of the city of Brasov received the privilege of building a stone fortress in Bran.
Between the years 1419-1424, the fortress became the property of another king, Sigismund, who was the ally of the lord of Tara Romaneasca (Wallachia), Mircea the Elder, against the Turks.
At the end of the 15th century, the fortification was subordinated to the authority of the Szekler Committee, passing under the leadership of the Voivodeship of Transylvania during the reign of Iancu de Hunedoara. The connection of Vlad Ţepeş (the mythical Dracula) with Bran was also recorded during this period. More precisely, Iancu de Hunedoara entrusted Vlad Tepes, the leader of Tara Romaneasca (Wallachia) with the defense of the pass to Transylvania, a pass guarded by the fortress.
The history of Bran Castle continues, and on December 1, 1920, the City Council of Brasov donated this castle to Queen Maria, queen of Great Romania, as a symbol of gratitude for her contribution to the Great Union of 1918.
The castle was restored in the period 1920-1927 under the direction of the architect of the Royal Court, Carol Liman. During the reign of Queen Maria, Bran Castle experienced its heyday as a royal residence, being one of her favorite places. The guide also informs tourists eager for stories that Queen Maria’s heart was buried, for a short time, in Bran.
Although in 1938, Queen Maria’s daughter, Princess Ileana, received this Castle by will, in 1948 the royal family was expelled from the country by the communist regime, and Bran Castle became the property of the Romanian state.
Ten years after the installation of the communist regime in Romania, Bran Castle was opened as a museum of history and feudal art. The dilapidated state of the Castle led to its closure in 1987 and its reopening only in 1993, as a result of restoration works.
Currently, Bran Castle is the property of Princess Ileana’s descendant, Dominic de Habsburg.
The main reason why foreign tourists choose to visit Bran Castle is represented by the legend that has been created around it. Thus, the most representative legend of Transylvania, that of Dracula or Vlad Ţepes, is indisputably linked to Bran Castle.
The myth of Count Dracula is based on the fiction novel “Dracula”, published in Great Britain in 1897, with the Irish writer Bram Stoker as its author. The characters in the novel “Dracula” are the result of the author’s fantasy, but the deeds of Count Dracula and his end are based on popular beliefs related to the existence of evil forces, such as vampires or undead.
Bran Castle is known by tourists from all over the world as Dracula’s Castle. This is also one of the reasons why it was included by CNN journalists in a top 10 of medieval castles.
“The administrators of the Bran Castle, but also the Romanian tourism officials, insist on highlighting the connection between the castle and Vlad Tepeş, a source of inspiration for Bram Stoker when he wrote “Count Dracula”. The connections are subtle, there’s no denying the eerie charm of this massive structure. Some of the exhibited pieces of furniture belonged to Queen Maria of Romania, a granddaughter of Queen Victoria, who, after refusing the marriage proposal of King George V of England, married the King of Romania”, is the presentation given to the fortification by today.
Bran Castle has preserved its external brilliance, history and legend.