San Teodoro is a scattered comune of 4,540 inhabitants facing the sea of southern Gallura, on the eastern foot of the Monte Nieddu massif, in the plain the Gallurese still call Oviddè. The Itinerarium Antoninianum, a third-century document, records a station named Coclearia here, and two Roman milestones, sadly without inscriptions, surface in the hamlets of L'Alzoni and Budditogliu; the finds gathered in the territory are displayed in the Museo del Mare.
The parish church is dedicated to Theodore of Amasea, an eastern soldier and martyr venerated by the Byzantines, yet no documents about it survive from before the mid-seventeenth century: the old building was pulled down in the nineteen-fifties and replaced by the present one. In the Middle Ages the territory belonged to the curatoria of Posada, then to the fief known as the county of Montalbo, and it was dotted with small villages that vanished after the plagues of the fourteenth century. Separation from Posada came only in 1959; the coat of arms granted in 2001 joins the cockerel of Gallura with a bireme, in memory of the Roman port.
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