Since 1997, the Bran Castle in Bran (Törzburg) near Brașov has been marketed as Dracula's Castle. The website promoting it claims it was one of Vlad the Impaler's temporary residences. Since Van Helsing and Mina in Chapter 25 do not identify Count Dracula as the historical Vlad III Dracula (Vlad Țepeş or Vlad the Impaler) but as a nameless other of [the Dracula] race, living in a later age, this claim - true or not - does not support the identification of Stoker's fictitious building with the Bran Castle. However, in Chapter 18, Van Helsing confirms Dracula and Vlad are one and the same: He must, indeed, have been that Voivode Dracula who won his name against the Turk, over the great river on the very frontier of Turkey-land. For the same reason, the Poenari Castle in Argeș County does not qualify as the real Dracula Castle; Stoker never heard of the Poenari fortress. Both the Bran Castle and the Poenari Castle are more than 100 miles away from the site Stoker actually selected and took down in a cryptic handwritten note. The Hotel Castel Dracula, located in Piâtra Fântânele in the Borgo Pass, which promotes itself as being constructed at the place of Stoker's Castle, at least is located at the point where Harker left the post carriage from Bistritz to Bukovina to be picked up by the Count; their route must have led over the former watchpost of Dornișoara towards the Călimani Mountains peaks in the south-east.