At no. 5 on Strada Cositorarilor is the house where Vlad the Impaler was born in 1431. Feared for his cruelty, the Prince of Wallachia was the inspiration for Bram Stoker’s Count Dracula and spent the first four years of his life in this building.
Going by the vaulting on the ground floor, this ochre-painted house may well be the oldest in the city.
Hanging outside is a wrought iron sculpture of a dragon, symbolising the chivalric Order of the Dragon to which Vlad the Impaler belonged.
