A tremendous flood hit Salerno which, as in other cities, saw public buildings such as baths, theaters and circuses transformed into churches, homes or cemeteries, marking a change of society and the decline of Roman civilization. In the environments of the baths abandoned after the flood
The slab from the burial of Socrates, an official of the regional administration, was found in November 497 AD. but it is not the only example of burial because the area was used as a burial ground by families of Roman, Greek-Byzantine and Gothic origin until 7th century A.D.
The Lombard prince, Arechi II, had his ducal curtis built using the foundations of ancient Roman baths. At the moment some walls of the chapel located to the north that had access only from inside the Regia.
The hall, which was a church dedicated to Saints Peter and Paul and a throne room, was also equipped with an atrium of which only the loggia remains with mullioned windows with brick arches that rest on the center on a column with an early medieval capital. The entrance to the classroom was located on the south wall, which later disappeared following the renovations of the modernand contemporary age.
