Prundu

Prundu is a commune located in Giurgiu County, composed of two villages, situated on Bumas Depression. It is boarded by the Danube in the South, and it is crossed by the rivers Arges, Neajlov and Gavanu. The commune is placed at the crossing between the forest steppe and the meadow, and it represents the youngest geomorphologic relief unit, composed of meadows, islands, ponds and channels.

In the village Puieni, on the hummock Gorgona, a Neolithic settlement was discovered, that belonged to the Gumelnita Culture (4^th-3^rd Millenium BC), and where silex, rock, and bone tools were discovered, as well as ceramic pots painted with spiral motifs and anthropomorphic and zoomorphic figures(statues of women dressed in bell-shaped dresses).

The main activity of the inhabitants is agriculture. There is also a bulrush plashing workshop in the village.

In the village Puieni there is a church built in 1859 whose titular saint is Sfantul Dumitru.

Main touristic objectives:

• The medieval settlement in Prundu, called Modaesti, from the Medieval Ages, 8^th -9^th Cent. AD, situated at 1,5 km East from the village, in the North of the river Comasca.
• The archaeological site in Prundu „Valea Morii”, situated between the village and the place called Valea Morii, in the North of the river Comasca, Latene, 3^rd-2^th Cent. BC
• The archaeological site in Prundu „Malul Molescului”, situated at 1 Km North to the village, in the North of the river Comasca, from the Medieval Ages, 8^th -9^th Cent. AD and 3^rd-2^th Cent. BC
• The archaeological site in Prundu „Lacul Greaca”, situated at 2,5 Km East from Prundu, from the Medieval Ages, Hallstat, Latene, 8^th -9^th Cent. AD and 3^rd-2^th Cent. BC
• Tei Settlement in Puieni, from the Bronze Age, situated 2 km West from the village, in the North side of the river Comasca.
• The Medieval settlement in Puieni, in the South border of the village, and in the North side of the river Comasca.
• Comana forest
• The Danube

Events:

• The village festivity – Whit Sunday
• Motocross contest Cupa Dunarii – 11 September