Verucchio

Verucchio sits on a 330-meter spur over the lower Marecchia valley, eighteen kilometers from Rimini and within sight of the Adriatic plain. A Villanovan settlement occupied this ridge from the twelfth to the seventh century BC and left a necropolis whose chamber tombs, amber, bronze, and worked wood form the Museo Civico Archeologico collection now housed in the former Augustinian convent. The town is also the home ground of the Malatesta, named for Malatesta da Verucchio, founder of the lordship that would rule Rimini, Cesena, Pesaro, Fano and Fossombrone for two centuries; his Rocca Malatestiana, also called Castel del Sasso, is one of the largest and best-preserved Malatesta fortifications and his birthplace.

A second fortress, the Rocca del Passerello, holds the lower end of the ridge. The commune extends to the frazione of Villa Verucchio, where the cypress planted by Saint Francis of Assisi during a 1213 visit still grows in the convent cloister.

From Rimini (RMI), about 48 minutes by car.

Ancona / Pescara (AOI) is about 1h 25m away.

By car from the centre of Bologna 1h 36m or Ancona 1h 38m.

There is a railway station in the comune, so you can arrive without a car.

Coming from Bologna?

Coming by train into Rimini? Verucchio is about 27 minutes away by road.

Every town within reach of Rimini airport.