Archeologists confirmed human
presence of inhabitants since 400 BC. Snagov village was built around the
Snagov monastery, founded in the late 14th century on an islet in Lake Snagov,
about 2 km north of Snagov village. The first written record of it is found in
a document from the court of Mircea cel Bătrân and dated 1408. Snagov monastery
was excavated in 1933 by archaeologist Dinu V. Rosetti.
Communist dictator Nicolae
Ceauşescu and his entourage used Snagov as a vacation retreat.
