The inscription is an epitaph of Laurencius de Longo Campo,[4] the full text being Hic sepultus est comes Laurencius de Longo-Campo, pie memorie, Anno Domini MCCC ("Here is buried count Laurentius of Longus-Campus, in pious memory, Anno Domini 1300").

The letter also names the city in Old Romanian, which was Slavic, according to its roots: Dlăgopole — Длъгополь (with the same meaning — "a long field").

During the reign of Șerban Cantacuzino (1678–1688), pressure was exerted to change the Catholic judges of Câmpulung to Eastern Orthodox.

[8] Outside the town, in the south-west, on the hill currently named Câmpul mișeilor ("Field of the cripple") was a leper colony, which had its own church and mill.

There was a considerable traffic with Transylvania, over the Bran Pass, 24 kilometers to the north, and with the south by a branch railway to Ploiești.

At the end of the 19th century Câmpulung had a population of 11,244 people, and the main streets were called Negru Vodă, Râului, Matei Basarab, and Gruiului, running parallel to the city centre and paved with cobblestones, some of them planted with trees.