Verucchio boasts a very ancient history with the Malatesta dynasty. During the Iron Age , between IX and VI century Verucchio gives hospitality to a human settlement with Villanovans origins, whose finds are today conserved in the Civic Museum. Anyway, Verucchio has medieval origins.
Between the end of XII century and 1462 the impregnable fortress of Verucchio is the feud from which the Malatesa family keeps its power on the whole sea-side coast and on the region Marche.
The 31st October 1462 Federco da Montefeltro besieged Verucchio decreeing the end of Malatesta rule, and Pope Leone X declared Verucchio as "Town".
Other important families who lived in Verucchio were Medici and Pio Commeno ones.
Afterwards it became again property of the Church ( 1500).
The Malatesta fortress formed by different buildings each one built in a different historical period, between XII and XVI century, rises in a big area on the hill top of Verucchio "stone", where you can admire a wonderful view.
Today it is possible to admire the inner of the fortress of 1400, realized thanks to Sigismondo Malatesta in 1449: the rooms, the wonderful Sala Grande (big room) and it is also possible to visit the dungeons or to go up on the top of donjon to admire a wonderful view.
Considered as the Cathedral of Marecchia valley, Della Collegiata Church is dated 1863 and projected by Antonio Tondini.
      In Villa Verucchio, near the Francescani convent , lies the Santa Croce Church. In it sinner rises the "cipresso di San Francesco": it is a tree, a vegetable monument, with a diameter of 7,5 metres and an height 23 meters, that botanists considered 700 years old but the traditions told that it was planted by San Francesco.
Starting from the S. Agostino Church you can walk along the wall "Mura del Fossato". Completely restored this wall open its self on extraordinary views on Valmarecchia and walking along it is a way to discover the historical origins of Verucchio.