Dracula
Title: THE CURSE OF COUNT DRACULA. By: Chelminski, Rudy, Smithsonian, 00377333, Apr2003, Vol. 34, Issue 1 Database: MasterFILE Premier
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THE CURSE OF COUNT DRACULA
The prospect of a tourist bonanza from a Dracula theme park in Transylvania excites some Romanians, but opponents see only red
THE BREITE PLATEAU, a broad sheep-grazing ground of 300 acres or so, lies a couple of hundred miles north of Romania's capital, Bucharest, but only a ten-minute car ride from Sighisoara, the city of 38,000 that owns the land. Interspersed here and there across the plateau are 120 venerable oak trees. When I drove from Sighisoara to Breite to see those gnarly giants not long ago, I was accompanied by a couple of earnest young environmentalists who darkly warned that the trees would soon be felled. A large white billboard explained why. "Aici se va construi DRACULA PARK," announced the text in crimson letters: something called Dracula Park was to be built there.
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Dracula Title: THE CURSE OF COUNT DRACULA. By: Chelminski, Rudy, Smithsonian, 00377333, Apr2003, Vol. 34, Issue 1 Database: MasterFILE Premier HTML Full Text THE CURSE OF COUNT
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