According to legend, the island of Korcula was founded by Trojan hero Antenor in the 12th century BC who is also famed as the founder of the city of Padua. Although archaeological finds show that Korcula island has been inhabited since the Paleolithic age, the town of Korcula was first mentioned in the 10th century. The oldest architectural remains, fragments with interlacing ornamentation, date exactly from that time. After the Greeks, Illyrians and Romans, in the 9th century Croats have arrived and remained on the island. Some biographers suggest that Marco Polo was born in Curzola, today known as Korcula in present-day Croatia, however there is no proof to this claim.