Neamt Fortress is mentioned first in the year 1699, when the Karlovitz treaty was signed and the Poland army had to leave the castles and the monasteries from Moldavia.

Few years later to hurry the leave of the Poland's, Antioh Cantemir sent an army to Suceava and Neamt. The city and the fortress suffered great destructions, also the civil construction and the religious ones: St. Dumitru Church, "The sleep of Virgin Mary" Church built by Gheorghe Stefan and the Catholic Church.

For a decade, Neamt Fortress appears only in documents regarding St. Nicolae monastery inside the fortress. New documents were found in the Austrian- Turk war when the fortress along with few monasteries will be occupied by the Austrians, but not after long will be taken by the royal army.

After this, the fortress looses the politic-military importance. Along 1 century, the people built many things using the rocks and the polls of the Neamt fortress bridge. The ruling in 1834 has made the first steps in protecting the fortress.
The access to the ruins is made on a zigzag road.with 4 towers in the corners. The main entrance is in the east side, where you can still see 4 poles from the old bridge. Another way of access is in the north part. Inside there were rooms with arches, noticeable because of the walls. Now, all the inside is covered with plants.

Important writers or figures of the times mentioned or even wrote poems about the fortress (Dimitrie Bolintineanu, that visiting the fortress in 1857 wrote the inspired poem "the mother of Stephen the Great").

In 1866 Neamt Fortress was declared a historical monument, the works of reconsolidation in the years 1968-1972, followed the conservation and the preserve of the monument as it was, without the reconstruction of the parts that disappeared.

Every year the fortress is visited by thousands of tourists from all Romania and not only, being one of the most important monument in the area.