Verucchio

The splendid city walls have recently been renovated, restoring the might of the defensive system built by the Malatesta. A visit also affords breathtaking views.

Surrounded by ancient olive trees and at the foot of the rocky spur on which the old town is built, the Romanesque church is reached by descending towards Villa Verucchio. An example of severe Romanesque-Gothic architecture, it stood along the…

In Villa Verucchio, the church houses a precious fresco (Crucifixion), a masterpiece by the “fourteenth-century Rimini school” whose artists include the socalled “Maestro of Verucchio”. Outside is a patriarch tree, the oldest cypress in Europe, which is about 23 metres…

In the mediaeval monastery of the Augustinian Fathers and adjacent 14th-century church of Sant’Agostino, this is an internationally renowned museum due to the rarity, quality and quantity of artefacts on display. These come from local necropolises dating from the early…

Designed by the architect Antonio Tondini in the 19th century it has magnificent works of art including a wooden Crucifix (early 14th century) by an unknown artist of the “fourteenth-century Rimini school”, a wooden crucifix on a shaped tablet painted…

In the 17th century the Convent of the Poor Clares was built on the ruins of the second Malatesta fortress, Passerello Castle, along with a Baroque church of the same name that can still be visited. Next to it, an…