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	Bucharest Day Trips - Snagov Lake Excursion from Bucharest
		Snagov Lake - The Tomb of Vlad Tepes Dracula
		A visit to Bucharest would not be complete without a day excursion to Snagov Lake.
		The main attraction here is the Monastery situated on an isolated island in the middle of the lake, only accessible by boat.
	www.world66.com /europe/romania/bucharest/day_trips/snagov_lake_excurs (96 words)

	Snagov - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Snagov (population: 6,041) is a commune, located 40 km north of Bucharest in Ilfov county, Romania.
		Lake Snagov, a lake with a surface of 5.75 km
		Snagov forest, the last remnant of the Codrii Vlăsiei a large forest that once surrounded the town of Bucharest.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snagov (291 words)

	Countering Anti-Roma Violence in Eastern Europe
		The aims of the Snagov conference were to evaluate the current methods of addressing the issues involving the Roma populations that had been identified at Stupava and to formulate further recommendations on these matters.
		The Snagov conference took up three main issues of concern to the Roma community in eastern and central Europe: education and equality of opportunity; the transnational status of the Roma minority; and provision of basic human and civil rights, particularly protection against violent attack.
		At the conclusion of the conference, the participants approved "The Snagov Declaration," which expresses their support for the adoption at national levels of all necessary policies and measures to promote equal opportunity and full participation for the Roma in the political, economic, and social realms.
	www.per-usa.org /snagov.htm (7475 words)

	Snagov Village Bucharest, Romania - Snagov Village Group Booking Reservation Meetings Meeting Planning Weddings ...
		The Snagov Village is the perfect place to hold a corporate event such as; team building, sales meetings, board of director meetings, or just corporate hospitality.
		Snagov Village weddings can be casual or elegant but will always be perfect.
		A Snagov Village wedding reception is a party where guests come to celebrate the marriage of the bride and groom.
	www.meetingforce.com /snagov-village-hotel-66h147.html (673 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| The Dracula Project lives again
		Now, the tourism ministry has authorised construction of the park at the town of Snagov, 25 miles north of Bucharest, where Vlad Tepes is thought to have been buried.
		In fact, the 1,500-acre state-owned Ylasia farm at Snagov was once the pride of Ceausescu, who was deposed and shot 14 years ago.
		Snagov is not ashamed of its links to the notorious figure.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/11/20/wdrac20.xml&sSheet=/news/2003/11/20/ixnewstop.html&secureRefresh=true&_requestid=146957 (544 words)

	Snagov, Ilfov - Wikipedia
		Snagov (cu o populaţie de 6.041 de locuitori) este o localitate în judeţul Ilfov, Muntenia, România, care se găseşte la circa 40 km nord de capitala ţării, Bucureşti.
		Întemeierea localităţii Snagov este strâns legată de construirea mânăstirii Snagov pe Ostrovul din nordul lacului Snagov.
		Pădurea Snagov, una din ultimele pâlcuri de pădure ai celebrilor Codrii ai Vlăsiei.
	ro.wikipedia.org /wiki/Snagov,_Ilfov (199 words)

	ILFOV County (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Traces of human existence going as far back as the Paleolithic and Neolithic have been unearthed within the radius of Ilfov county, especially in the area of Caldarusani, Glina and Chiajna nearby Bucharest.
		Since the birth of Wallachia under the reign of Basarab I in the latter half of the 14th century, a lot of boroughs and small settlements came into being through the 16th century.
		Waterways and lakes: Dambovita (west-eastwards) and Colentina (north-westwards) which waters the town of Buftea; the lakes — Cernica, Snagov and Caldarusani — are in the northern part of the county; it is also crossed by the Ialomita and its tributary Gruiu.
	www.clubromania.ro /romania/counties/ilfov/index.htm (407 words)

	Romania feeds off Dracula’s blood and gore (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Such gore is only a glimpse of what’s in store when Romania constructs a Disneyland-style Dracula Park at Snagov, north of the capital, hoping to attract a million visitors a year.
		Horror rides, catacombs and a vampirology institute are included in the plans for the $30 million (19.3 million pounds) theme park which will be built on 300 hectares (740 acres) of state land with private funds in an effort to lure tourists to the poor Balkan country.
		The mayor of Snagov, where Bucharest’s elite has built holiday villas, said the area’s 7,000 permanent residents live off local tourism which boosts the population to 50,000 in the summer.
	www.religionnewsblog.com /2960/romania-feeds-off-draculas-blood-and-gore (1175 words)

	Weekend in Bucharest - Romania, Accommodation for week-end in Bucharest (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Monastery from 1364, on a small isolated island in the middle of Snagov Lake.
		Vlad Tepes built a jail with special torture chambers where the prisoners were killed by fire or iron and then thrown straight into the lake by a sort of canon.
		In 1476, Prince Vlad Tepes-Dracula was mysteriously killed in a battle and the legend says that he was buried in Snagov Monastery.
	www.adtour.ro /weekend_bucharest.html (266 words)

	Snagov Lake - The Tomb of Vlad Tepes Dracula
		Snagov Lake - The Tomb of Vlad Tepes Dracula
		But the main reason people come to Snagov is the monastery that is situated on an island in the middle of the lake that is only accessible by boat.
		The Snagov monastery is said to be the place where they sent the headless corpse of Vlad Tepes (Dracula) after he was assassinated.
	www.goromaniatours.com /destination-guide/snagov-lake.html (290 words)

	Interviu cu Mihai Marcel
		Complex is located in the region of the Snagov village, on the banks of the lake carrying the same name.
		Within the Snagov base, there is a 1,500-place parking lot, recently repaired and marked.
		In Snagov, we also offer a diversified range of dishes, especially fish food; but stomach soup and grill chicken are also highly appreciated.
	www.cfr.ro /JF/engleza/2000_4/mmarcel.htm (1118 words)

	Vlad Sites in Romania
		As a further attraction, it took in the Painted Monasteries of Moldavia, the city of Suceava, the Bicaz Gorge, Sibiu, and Bucharest.
		The Snagov Monastery is traditionally believed to be the burial place of Vlad Tepes., though there is not complete agreement about whether this is the case.
		According to some historical accounts, his headless body was taken to the monastery and buried in front of the altar.
	www.ucs.mun.ca /~emiller/vlad_romania.html (2070 words)

	NATO - Romania - Worldpress.org
		Snagov, Romania, April 19, 2002: Romanian President Ion Iliescu (C)chats with Greek Prime Minister Costas Simitis (L) and Bulgarian President Georgi Parvanov (R) at their third trilateral summit to discuss economic cooperation and a common policy with regard to joining the European Union and NATO (Photo: AFP).
		At the conference held in the resort town of Snagov, Romania, they declared that bringing Romania and Bulgaria into the alliance would strengthen NATO’s military capabilities and its capacity to combat terrorism and nonmilitary threats.
		The Snagov meeting brought together the Romanian and Bulgarian presidents, Ion Iliescu and Georgi Parvanov; and the Greek prime minister, Costas Simitis.
	www.worldpress.org /print_article.cfm?article_id=685&dont=yes (419 words)

	Cancellation of Dracula Park hailed as victory by Romanian church
		The decision had been taken after "irregularities and delays" were discovered in plans for the attraction, the government said in a statement.
		Snagov is said to be the burial place of Vlad Tepes, or Vlad the Impaler, the 15th century ruler of Wallachia, who has been described as the inspiration for the character of Dracula, created by Irish novelist Bram Stoker in 1897.
		As ruler of Wallachia, in the south of present-day Romania, Vlad became notorious for impaling captured Turks and rebellious nobles on wooden stakes.
	www.eni.ch /articles/display.shtml?06-0305 (439 words)

	Vladislav III Tepes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The spy then dragged his body, in the dark, to a swamp near the monastery Snagov, and from there decapitated him.
		A monk at Snagov happened upon the body of Vlad in the swamp and recognizing it by the clothes who it was, dragged it to the monastery to bury him in the floor near the altar of the monastery.
		Where his body lays now is uncertain since many of the graves at Snagov had been disturbed and destroyed during its many years of neglect.
	www.angelfire.com /ks/tepelus/vtepelus.html (1226 words)

	Vlad Tepes Dracula Pictures - Romania Web Collection
		Having married Matthias Corvin's sister, Vlad was released to continue the anti-Turkish struggle, and after spending a year in Sibiu in 1475, he regained the Wallachian throne in 1476, with the help of Matei.
		His head disappeared, supposedly sent to the Sultan as a gift, while the decapitated body was reputedly buried inside the church at Snagov Monastery, located on an isolated island near Bucharest.
		When archaeologists in the early 1930's removed the marble slab that was supposed to be covering the Vlad's grave, they found an empty six-foot pit.
	www.aboutromania.com /dracula18.html (162 words)

	Bilom Group - construction and real estate in Bucharest
		After having sold an entire Complex of villas in Baneasa Pipera, prominent residential land in the heart of Bucharest and several luxurious apartments, the Bilom Group of Companies is now offering for sale more residential land on the outskirts of Bucharest.
		Further more we are offering an extraordinary villa in the picturesque village of Snagov.
		A villa built on 2600 sqm of land on the banks of lake Snagov: 7 bedrooms, 5 bathrooms (3 with jacuzzi), gymnasium, billiardroom, wine cellar, sauna, outdoor pool, 2 boathouses etc.
	www.bilomgroup.ro (113 words)

	Turism - Manastirea Snagov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		In partea de est a lacului Snagov "tarmurit in departare, jurimprejur, de paduri dese si intunecate, la mijlocul baltii, intr-o mica insula, se vedeau zidurile invechite si turlele crestate ale vechii manastiri Snagovul" (Alexandru Odobescu).
		Astazi, din vechiul complex a ramas numai biserica mare (rezidita de Neagoe Basarab), restul cladirilor fiind rodul completarilor ulterioare.
		Mai tarziu, printre cei inchisi in celulele mucede ale temnitei manastiresti au fost socialistul utopic Theodor Diamant, iar apoi Dimitrie Filipescu si alti patrioti, membrii unei societati secrete, care au organizat in 1840 o miscare politica, urmarind eliberarea taranilor clacasi si proclamarea republicii.
	www.ici.ro /romania/ro/turism/mt_snagov.html (299 words)

	Romania, Accommodation, Tours, Danube Delta, Black Sea, Spa, Mountain Resort, Travel&Music, Romantic Travel, Adventure, ...
		In the way to Snagov Monastery you can see Bucharest Baneasa Airport (for domestic flights), Bucharest Otopeni airport (for international flights).
		After one-hour visit we leave Snagov and come back to Bucharest.
		The monastic establishment is located on a small island of Snagov Lake.
	www.ultramarine.ro /engleza/snagov.asp (504 words)

	Bucharest Municipal Cup (Snagov) - Race Report - TransitionTimes.com Endurance Sports Magazine
		I was slightly apprehensive about taking part in the Bucharest Municipal Triathlon race on 2 July, as I knew next to no one in the Romanian triathlon set up - to help, a friend from my gym, who had never done a triathlon before, very bravely offered to come along and race too.
		All fears were removed when I arrived at Snagov lake as everyone was very friendly and welcoming (what a great characteristic of triathletes worldwide).
		After some pre race chat (I was, for instance, slightly concerned to hear that I was racing a Romanian Olympic swimmer!) the swim started, consisting of two laps of a portion of the lake.
	www.transitiontimes.com /viewstorylocal.cfm?ID=7312&ett2local=Romania (321 words)

	Count Dracula theme park rises from the dead - www.smh.com.au
		Now the tourism ministry has authorised construction of the park at Snagov, 40 kilometres north of Bucharest, where Vlad Tepes is thought to have been buried.
		Work was to start in March, with an initial investment of $A118 million, said Sorin Marica, a tourism official.
		The state-owned Ylasia farm at Snagov was once the pride of Mr Ceausescu, who was deposed and shot 14 years ago."He was extremely careful about what he ate," said Nicolae Dima, from the Snagov municipality.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2003/11/21/1069027333554.html (535 words)

	Romanian Daily » Tourism » Dracula Park 'industrial park' status annulled (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		A hot media topic at the time, the project was one of the initiatives at the beginning of the mandate of former Minister of Tourism Dan Matei Agathon.
		The association contract, closed in 2003 for 49 years, established that RAAPPS would insure the usage rights for a 460-hectare land plot situated in the Snagov village, for the completion of the project, and the Dracula Park company was to contribute with feasibility, hydro-geological and impact studies.
		The object of the association between RAAPPS and Dracula Park was the creation and authorizing of the Snagov Tourist and Entertainment Park.
	romaniandaily.ro /cat13953/art7088140971 (293 words)

	ICHB - Celebration of Spring
		You can imagine: last day of school, few people came to school, in other words, boredom to the maximum, but our time was very close!.....Mr.
		After the directors departure, we continued enjoing what Snagov has to offer: the beautiful and calm nature, the swings and other devices usually used by little kids.We finished with a basketball match and cleaning the place where we stood.
		I tihnk it was a very nice picnic, a great oportunity for us to get to know each other better, a wanderful way to start the holiday, in the awakening nature, far away from all the polution of Bucharest!......
	www.ichb.ro /content/view/25 (326 words)

	Albatross Travel - Tailor-made guided tours all over Romania for individuals & groups
		It was built by the ruler prince Matei Basarab and later painted by the famous Romanian painter Nicolae Grigorescu.
		It is located on a small island on Snagov Lake, so implies boat transfer to reach it.
		This 14th century church is one of the most beautiful in Romania, following the architectural patterns that is characteristic to the monasteries from the Holy Mount Athos.
	www.albatross-travel.ro /tours_details.asp?ID=22&Day=1 (356 words)

	Ilfov County - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Several lakes can be found in Ilfov county, notably Cernica, Snagov Lake and Căldăruşani Lake.
		In fact, the name of the forest means "the Forests of the Vlachs" (Romanians), a name given by the Slavs who inhabited the nearby plains.
		The county was named after the Ilfov river and it is of Slavic origin, being composed from "Ilf" (a name?) and suffix "-ov" and it appears for the first time in a 1482 donation act of voivode Vlad Călugărul to the monastery of Snagov.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ilfov_County (817 words)

	Snagov lake travel guide
		Snagov lake travel guide - The best resource for sights, hotels, restaurants, bars, what to do and what to see
		Snagov lake is situated 25-30 Km from the capital Bucharest.
		Additional travel guides are available in ten languages at wikitravel.org.
	www.world66.com /europe/romania/snagovlake (166 words)

	Bucharest Surroundings tour including Caldarusani, Tiganesti and Snagov
		Snagov Monastery, a rustic cloister from 1364, on a small isolated island in the middle of Snagov Lake, is the reputed burial place of Vlad Tepes, also known as Dracula, who, it is claimed, lies beneath the floor of the church.
		Vlad the Impeller built a jail with special torture chambers where the prisoners were killed by fire or iron and then thrown straight into the lake by a sort of canon.
		In 1476, Prince Vlad the Impala-Dracula was mysteriously killed in a battle and the legend says that he was buried in Snagov Monastery.
	www.hotelnet.ro /bucharest-tours/surroundings-tour.htm (345 words)

	Cybergolf International
		The 1,500-acre state-owned Ylasia farm at Snagov was once the pride of Ceausescu.
		The tourist facility is expected to boost the fortunes of Snagov and environs.
		A bust of the heavily armored, thickly moustached Tepes sits outside the town hall and is one of the city’s most popular gathering spots.
	www.cybergolf.com /region.asp?regionID=12&newsID=1815 (678 words)

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