The actual owner of Dracula’s Castle intends to sell it, and Romanian deputies are totally against. The castle build in the 14th century was a state property. However last year the castle was handled to Dominic Gabsburg, which is an architect from New York and the descendant of countries ex-ruler.

Dominic Gabsburg declared that he intends to sell the castle. The architect’s desire produced a misunderstanding for Romanian deputies that declare that the handing on of the castle to Dominic Gabsburg was illegal. In turn the New York architect insists on the opposite and menaces to prosecute with an legal action in the case that someone would try to deprive him of his rights.

According to the legend, the prototype of Dracula is the prince Bloody Vlad. As the legend says prince Vlad spent a night in the castle that Dominic Gabsburg now owns. The hypothesis that Dracula once lived in that castle contributes to the development of Romanian tourism industry, according to the opinion of Romanian deputies. Annually the castle is visited by 450 thousand of tourists.

Earlier Dominic Gabsburg proposed to the state to buy the Castle for 78 million dollars. However the Romanian authorities considered it to be a raised price and rejected the offer. At the same time in the Romanian Parliament began to declare that the decision of handing on the castle to Dominic Gabsburg was a wrong one.

The deputies remind that Dominic’s Gabsburg Family was expelled from the Castle after the Second World War, and that is why the handing on of the castle to the New York architect must be prohibited. Reacting to these declarations, Dominic Gabsburg told by the means of his lawyer that he will lodge a suit of 200 million dollars if he was deprived of his rights.