San Teodoro Park Center

The rural center of San Teodoro, situated at the foot of Monteveglio's hill, is one of the park's most ancient places. The name of the saint, who was an Asian legionary martyred in the time of Diocletian, reminds of the time when the Byzantines defended these lands from the Lombards' assaults, and a church with this dedication appears in the submission act of the people of Monteveglio to Bologna in 1157.
In the late 15th century the center passed to the Canons, and it became the center of the Possessione San Teodoro, while the church went through a fast decline. Since then it became a simple farm, until it was turned into the Park's headquarters. Its didactic laboratory is the heart of an environmental education activity that has been involving the schools of Monteveglio and of the near municipalities for over 20 years, and that takes place along the itineraries of the protected area and in other places of the Samoggia Valley, availing itself of a rich cartographic and historical documentation and of innovative contents and methodologies, as some publications show.