The aerchelogical founds which were discovere in our territori durino several ages, but particularly in the last decades, demonstrate the Roman origin of Misano. The name is supposed to come from one of the numberous families who moved from Lazio to the countryside of Rimini (ager agriminensis) in the 3rd century b.C. It’s supposed to be a certain “Gens Mesia” who, for militar merits or something else, obtained wide lands in our area.

It was a Roma tradition to reward in this way the veterans od war or anybody else who had given considerable services to the country. In the first centuries after the Roman conquests in the territory of Misano, several inhabited groups rose, especially in the areas of Agina, Santamonica and Belvedere and, later, even in the hills at the back (Ca’-Gallo, Misano Monte, Terrabianca, ecc.).

The historical events of Misano, which go back to the 1st millenium of the vulgar age (by the way they have been hidden by time and by the lack of valid documents) are closely linked to those of Rimini, which was already colony by Latin laws from 90 b.C. Yet our territory became important when in 997 the Pieve of Sant’Erasmo, one the most ancient of the area, wa built there.

For more than two centuries, precisely from 1295 until 1528, Misano was under the dominion of the Malatestas, who built a castle of which, unluckly, only the access arch and part of the tower are left. When the dinasty of the Malatesta estinguished, the region of Romagna, and so Misano, too, was enclosed to the Papal State, whose jurisduction lasted almost without interruption until the unification of Italy. What was important in that period was the election as a autonomous commune in 1511, as results from a document which can still be found in our municipal archives.
Later Misano lost its administrative indipendence because of financial reasons and so it has to lean to different neighbouring communes.

It gained it back only in 1827 when it detached from San Giovanni in Marignano. Yet, after one century it risked to lose it again in favour of the neighbouring commune of Cattolica, which asked for the enclosion of the territory of Misano because of touristic reasons of that bathing centre, which was already settled of sandy beach.

In 1938 with a measure of the chief of government Mussolini, the country lost the name of “Villa Vittoria”, whose origin went back to the past century (1862), to take the one “Misano Adriatico”, which still keep. “Misano is and will be an autonomous commune, as long as it stays an agricultural commune”: with this declaration Mussolini granted the administrative indipence of the town and ordained its agricultural devotion. Yet in the souls of the people of Misano the feelings which would have changed our economic system were already rising.