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THIS IS ONE FOR POSTING .......NOTE THAT GENEAOLOGISTS HAVE TRACED VLAD DRACUL LINEAGE TO PRINCE CHARLES......HIS COAT OF ARMS DO HAVE A DRAGON AND VLAD WAS INTIATED INTO DRAGON SECRET SOCIETY BY MEROVINGIAN KING SIGISMUND II.....NOTE ALSO THE PEASANTS PAYING HOMAGE TO HIM....

SO, NO WONDER I AM GETTING ALOT OF HACKS FROM ROMANIA......WE TALKED THE OTHER DAY ABOUT HOW THE ROMANIANS WERE CONCERNED ABOUT WEATHER MANIPULATION AND ALSO HOW THERE WAS PROBABLY A GENETIC RESEARCH/BLACK SCIENCE PROGRAM GOING ON THERE BECAUSE IT WOULD BE EASY TO HIDE.

NOTE: THERE ARE VAST UNDERGROUND CAVE STRUCTURES THERE.....TRAVEL CHANNEL OR HISTORY CHANNEL DID WHOLE PROGRAM ON THE UNDERGROUND OF VLAD DRACULA'S CASTLES AND THEY WENT INTO ALL KINDS OF CAVES WHICH ARE SHUT BY THE GOVT.

PRINCE DRACUL IT SEEMS HAS RETURNED TO HIS HOME. Hawk

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Charles Takes a Bite of Dracula Country

Prince to buy ruined farmhouse in 'timewarp' Transylvanian village

September 17, 2006
Maurice Chittenden
The Sunday Times

THE Prince of Wales is buying a retreat in Transylvania, the region of Romania famous as the home of Count Dracula. The prince hopes to inject new life into a historic village listed as a world heritage site.

His purchase is intended to inspire sustainable tourism in the former communist country. It could also help staunch a possible exodus of Romanians from the region when the country joins the European Union in January.

Charles is negotiating to buy a ruined farmhouse in Viscri, a village of 400 homes in Transylvania, a region known as the birthplace of Vlad the Impaler, a 15th-century ruler whose cruel ways gave rise to the Dracula legends. Genealogists have traced his bloodline to the prince.

The farmhouse was built in the early 1800s to the plan of a dwelling from Vlad’s era. The village exists in something of a timewarp — most locals still travel by horse and cart.

When Charles visits his new home he will be able to live in almost medieval isolation in a single-storey building behind wooden gates, complete with a cobbled courtyard and pens for chickens, pigs and goats. It will be let out to tourists for most of the year.

This week — as the European commission prepares to release reports on whether Romania and its neighbour Bulgaria are ready for EU membership — 35 workers are attending an EU-sponsored conference sponsored by the EU to teach them traditional building methods, including making bricks in wood-fired kilns.

The prince, who has visited the region four times since 2002, is working with a charity dedicated to preserving the special nature of the area.

The Mihai Eminescu Trust (MET) has already blocked the construction of a Draculaland theme park, complete with blood-red candyfloss and garlic-flavoured ice cream, at the town of Sighisoara. Charles wrote to the Romanian president opposing it.

Within the next two years the trust plans to set up a national park for the bears, boars and wolves that roam the surrounding forests.

Caroline Fernolend, a local councillor and one of 25 descendants of the original Saxon settlers who still live in Viscri, said: “The people will welcome the prince. He loves it here. We have something very special which you in England have lost. It is in our architecture and in our environment.

“If we can bring more people to invest and spend money here it will help the local people stay.”

The MET is restoring 400 properties in 17 villages and employs 130 workers, mostly Romanians.

The prince was last in Romania in May when he spent two nights in Viscri and toured purchase sites.

On a previous visit he was having a picnic when a horseman galloped up through a clearing and threw himself at the prince’s feet. Charles’s bodyguards leapt to protect him but the man was just a villager who had come to pay homage in medieval style.

Charles wrote after one visit: “I was deeply impressed by the natural beauty and cultural richness of what I saw. The area represents a lost past for most of us — a past in which villages were intimately linked to their landscape.”

A Clarence House spokeswoman said: “The Prince of Wales has been looking to purchase a house in Transylvania . . . to be used as an example to assist sustainable tourism in the area.”

Jessica Douglas-Home, chairwoman of MET, said: “It is the most idyllic setting in the world. We try to restore the houses more or less as they were but we will make a concession for Prince Charles. He can have a bath and an inside lavatory.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article641451.ece