摘要：The success of the Dracula novel and its later film adaptations stem from the fact that the real Vlad Ţepeş was,himself,a remarkable character. This study documents sources that show a clear path between the real,historic character and the fictional hero. The method employed is empiric,namely consulting and translating old documents,and thus establishing connections between reality and fiction which later became legend. The novelty of the results derives from the documents analysed for the study:original documents, written in Latin or Slavonic,on sealed parchments,belonging to the Romanian National Archives. This study may represent an early form of understanding the relationship between the cultural-historical components and the possibilities for their tourist capitalization,as well as a pleading for a larger set of criteria used to analyse the evolution of cultural tourism.
关键词：reality;documents;image;historic person;fictional character; cultural tourism
