Plans to build a Count Dracula theme park in Romania have been abandoned after an international campaign against the project.

The mock Castle Dracula and surrounding vampire roller coasters will now not appear among the hills of Transylvania after both Prince Charles - a patron of a British society that supports the preservation of Romanian heritage and Greenpeace headed a major campaign against the plan.

The project was intended to attract a million visitors a year and double Romania's tourist income but the location - a medieval citadel at Sighisoara, was a major cause for concern for environmentalists. The Romanian authorities are said to be in favour of an alternative site near Bucharest.