In 1942, a group of scholars from the Germanic Archaeological Institute in Rome discovered the remains of a structure initially identified as the modest hunting palace of King Theodoric. Legend and history are intertwined in an ancient codex recounting the Life of St. Ellero, which relates that Theodoric had a hunting palace built, forcing the inhabitants to help: “At that time King Theodoric came to build a palace under the same mountain, above the Bidente River, and imposed many corvées on the neighboring populations.

They were not the only ones to have a hunting palace built.

cultura@comune.galeata.fc.it