德古拉城堡自1948年起首度在今年萬聖節有賓客過夜 / Dracula’s castle will have overnight guests for 1st time since 1948 this Halloween
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Dracula’s castle will have overnight guests on Halloween, marking the first time since 1948 that anyone has slept in the Transylvanian fortress.
德古拉城堡將在萬聖節有賓客過夜，為1948年以來首度有人在這座外西凡尼亞的要塞內睡覺。
(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
The site’s actual name is Bran Castle, and two people will get to sleep there Oct. 31 thanks to a promotion by Airbnb. The guests will be wined and dined, then left alone to lie down in red velvet-trimmed coffins just as Dracula did in the Bram Stoker horror novel that popularized the legend.
此處真正的名稱是布蘭城堡，拜Airbnb促銷活動之賜，2名幸運兒得以於10月31日在此過夜。賓客將接受美酒與美食招待，然後獨自躺進有紅絲絨花邊裝飾的棺材裡，一如讓吸血鬼傳奇廣為流傳的伯蘭．史杜克恐怖小說中描述的吸血鬼德古拉。
(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
The castle is famous for its connection to Vlad the Impaler, a real-life prince who stayed there in the 15th century and had a cruel habit of using stakes to impale his victims. Vlad inspired Stoker’s story of Count Dracula.
該城堡以其與弗拉德三世有關而聞名，這位伯爵確有其人，15世紀時住過這座城堡，並有以棍樁穿刺受害者的殘忍習慣。弗拉德三世是史杜克創作出小說虛構人物德古拉公爵的靈感來源。
(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)
The castle is one of Romania’s top tourist attractions, with more than 630,000 visitors a year. （AP）
這座城堡是羅馬尼亞最主要的觀光景點之一，每年吸引超過63萬人造訪。（美聯社）
(AP Photo/Andreea Alexandru)