Montescudo is most likely of Etruscan origin. Likely from Italianmonte ("mountain") + scudo ("shield"), thus ("shield mountain"). In the Roman era it was a station of the military mail service from Rimini to Rome. In 1209 it was conquered by Emperor Otto I, and later was under the Republic of Venice. In the late Middle Ages, through a series of bloody struggles, it was contended by the House of Malatesta of Rimini and by the Dukes of Urbino. In 1509 it was ceded by the Republic of Venice to the Papal States.
Montescudo was historically part of a district area whose capital was Coriano. During the Cisalpine Republic and Italian Republic, the district capital moved to Montescudo. The return of the Papal States in 1805 restored Coriano's place.[2]
The town was effectively razed during an engagement on the Gothic Line in the Second World War.[3] 576 Allied soldiers were buried in Montescudo, but were reinterred in the newly-built Coriano Ridge War Cemetery shortly afterwards due to the soil's subsistence in Montescudo.[4]
12Zaghini, Paolo (16 October 2023). "Sulle rive del Conca, confine che unisce"[On the banks of the Conca, a border that unites]. Chiamami Città (in Italian). Retrieved 2 January 2024.
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