The toponym Strigara may derive from the word “Extra-gallia,” meaning “territory outside Gaul” until it took its present name in Roman times. Along the slopes of this hill is the source of the Rubicon River, crossed in 49 B.C. by Julius Caesar and half of the curious and hikers who, through the “Passo dei Meloni,” can reach the source of the Urgon or Pisciatello believed by some scholars to be the real “Rubicon.” In the village, some fragments of walls bear witness to the ancient splendor of Strigara Castle, built around the 10th century. The structure first belonged to the Church of Rimini and then from 1305 was the domain of the Malatesta family, who held it, briefly, until the mid-17th century. Because of its location and solid structure, the castle had significant strategic and military importance in the Middle Ages.