Lots of people are asking about the new Dracula Park in Transylvania. Most of the time the question is: "Will the park do anything good for the Transylvanians or not?"
My opinion is that read the comment bellow and try to decide, what will be in case the so called Dracula Park will be built! But of course this is only one story, there could be thousends out there!:
Transylvania welcomes tourists but worries about the "bite" on history
BY JOHN MARKS
Once, long ago, say the people of the Romanian village of Aref, a prince named Vlad Dracula kept the Turks at bay, swept away corruption and, as far as they know, didn't impale any of their ancestors. "He was a just prince," says Gheorghe Tomescu, a prominent farmer, over a plate of blood-red Easter eggs. "We never thought of him as a vampire."
Vampire seekers do, however, and lately they have been swarming. These visitors from abroad bring the plot line of a Hollywood horror film to Aref, a place where the word for vampire doesn't exist and villagers like Tomescu think of Dracula as a kind of secular saint. There was the time a South Korean news team showed up and paid the Arefeans to dance in their folk costumes in the local cemetery, injecting an inauthentic element of the macabre into their folk tales; or the time a group of Germans pulled into town and invited 88-year-old village priest Ion Stanciulescu into their luxury van but kicked him out when the priest refused to tell them vampire stories.
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