One of the former Cherven Grods, located by important trade routes, a city since 1400. The oldest preserved monuments date back to the second half of the XVIII century. These include: the post-Dominican church of st. Nicholas, the church of st. Stanisław Kostka (former Greek Catholic church, and currently a Bernardine sanctuary with a miraculous image of Mother of God from Sokal, Ukraine), a baroque parish house (the birthplace of Aleksander Głowacki, better known as a famous writer Bolesław Prus), the court of the Du Chateau family (now a museum). In the XIX century, brick stalls and shops were built, characteristic of the cities of the Orient, and the thirteen-domed Orthodox Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary.

In 1816, father Stanisław Staszic, who was the owner of Hrubieszów, founded in the neighboring Dziekanów estate the first cooperative organization in Poland, known as the "Hrubieszów Agricultural Society".