BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - More than 60 years after it was seized by communists, the Romanian government is to hand back one of the country’s most popular tourist sites, the fabled Dracula Castle, to its former owner, the culture minister said Tuesday.

The castle, worth an estimated $25 million, was owned by the late Queen Marie and bequeathed to her daughter Princess Ileana in 1938. It was confiscated by communists in 1948 and fell into disrepair. It will be transferred on Friday to Dominic van Hapsburg, a New York architect who inherited the castle from Princess Ileana decades after the communists seized it, minister Adrian Iorgulescu told a news conference.

Van Hapsburg is a descendant of the Hapsburg dynasty which ruled Romania for a period starting in the late 17th century.

Some interesting facts, courtesy of draculascastle.com:

The castle is actually called Bran Castle. It was built by the Knights of the Teutonic Order in 1212.

Vlad Tepes (or Vlad the Impaler, Prince of Wallachia and son of Vlad Dracul) used the castle as his headquarters when he marched in Transylvania.

It’s not, in fact, the real Dracula Castle. That castle is now a ruins on the Arges River.