The name of the current Buccheri is uncertain, it could derive from the Arabic بقرة (baqara) which means "cow" that would propel precisely to the meaning of "place intended for grazing cattle". With even more degraded relevance, the origin in common with the Sicilian word vucceri ("butcher"), which comes from the ancient French Bouchier ("butcher"), is often mentioned.

Alternatively, it may derive from the unknown name of a person or from an Arab family, who in the past held command of the place. Other hypotheses argue that the name derives from the Ancient Greek and that is from the combination of the words βοῦς (boûs) and Ἥρα (Hơrā) as indicating the place where the sacred cows of the goddess Hera grazed.

The surrounding area is rich in archaeological evidence showing the presence of man in ancient times: a series of pastoral huts, built with megalithic technique recall this presence. The myth then recalls that in these districts the shepherd Daphni grazed his herds and those of the gods, to the sound of the flute. Located along the slopes of Mount Lauro (987 m a.s.l.) it was inhabited by Sicels, Romans, Byzantines and Arabs.

This had two towers to defend the main entrance facing south-east and a central tower, the keep. Some important remains of this castle remain today. The first lords of Buccheri, of which we know, were the Paternò, who settled in 1088. In 1282 the village, already developed around the castle, passed to Alaimo di Lentini, invested in the county by Peter III of Aragon: the protagonist of the Sicilian Vespers resided there occasionally with his wife Macalda of Scaletta. From the Alaimo di Lentini the fief passed to the Montalto family. The first baron of Buccheri was Gerardo Montalto, invested in 1313. After two centuries the lordship of the town passed to the Morra family, and from this to the Alliata-Villafranca, who ruled until 1812.

The first nucleus of the village consists of houses built around the castle and in the area along the ridge of the hill to the east, coinciding with the current district of Badia and Casale. Here was founded in 1212 the Church of S. Antonio; in 1453 the monastery of S. Benedetto and around this date the ancient Church of S. Maria Maddalena, near the eastern entrance of the village. During the 16th and 17th centuries the village grew along the southern slope of the castle. This trend was accentuated after the earthquake of 1693, which destroyed the country almost totally.

The center was rebuilt on the same site, but towards the valley below, then crossed by a water channel, which was covered around 1770. After the earthquake the Church of S. Antonio was directed towards the south (originally looking north) and the church of La Maddalena moved to the current site. The church of S. Antonio dominates the village from the top of a spectacular staircase (built in 1911). Inside the three naves you can admire two interesting paintings by Guglielmo Borremans painted in 1728, a beautiful altar frontal of the sixteenth century in the altar of the left nave. The church of S. Maria Maddalena dates back to the '400 and was located before the earthquake, east of the castle, on the hill called the "chiana".

It was rebuilt at the present site along the road axis of Via Vittorio Emanuele. The facade is due to the architect Michelangelo Di Giacomo, who worked there until 1750. Inside and in the right aisle there is a marble statue of Maddalena, sculpted in 1508 by Antonello Gagini. The Mother Church has an incomplete facade; remarkable in the central altar is a wooden crucifix of the sixteenth century, a seventeenth-century painting depicting Saint Michael in the left aisle and a painting depicting Saint Ambrose, patron saint of the town, from the mid-eighteenth century.

Isolated on a modest hill to the west of the village, it is the small but suggestive Sanctuary of the Madonna delle Grazie (XVII-XVIII centuries), once a monastery of hermit friars. Eight km from Buccheri, in the direction of Lentini, there is the Church of S. Andrea, built around 1225 on the initiative of Frederick II. It is in Gothic style, with a nave, with an original entrance to the west, for the monks of the annexed convent, and to the north for the faithful. It is one of the best examples of religious architecture of the Swabian period.

Returning to Buccheri, from Piazza Loreto you can reach the cave of S. Nicola, a Christian church carved into the rock of ancient foundation and covered with frescoes of which you can still see the traces today. On the plateau of Mount Lauro, overlooking the village, there are still numerous snowfalls, active until the 50s of the '900. The snows constituted a real local trade with the other cities of Sicily and even in Malta through the nivaroli assigned to the collection and marketing. The snow was sold to hospitals but also for culinary reasons (granite and ice cream). From 1700 and until the early nineteenth century the property was owned by Prince Alliata of Villafranca. The snow of Buccheri are divided into:

Numerous huts of shepherds with a circular plan and built with square blocks of black stone are the most striking traces of the ancient Iblean agropastoral civilization.