Throughout the late Middle Ages this area was reigned by Bosnian rulers, which is proved by the Charter of Kreševo, issued on August 12, 1434 by Juraj Vojsalić. It is in this Charter that the village of Tučepi was mentioned for the first time. The document was written in the Croatian language and the Bosnian alphabet (a variant of the Cyrillic alphabet). From the end of the fifteenth century until the end of the seventeenth century the Coastland was ruled by the Turks. Later on, during the eighteenth century, although the Venetian rule hed been set up. the local people, living in a frontier zone, used to take part on the Venetian - Turkish wars. This period characterized by wars and border disputes, has left several fortification objects, usually called towers, with the typical features of local building styles. All the towers are situated in the broader area of Gornji Tučepi. The Šarić tower is situated on the rock that juts out from the foot of the Biokovo. The Bušelić tower has a similar position, but it is nearer to the hamlet of Srida sela. The Lalić tower, situated in the village, is surrounded by the farmand residential - buildings. Overlooking the village from northwest side, above the hamlet of Podpeć, there is a cliff with the remains of fortification and residential objects built in dry-wall techniques.

In these hard times the inhabitants of Tučepi managed to build St. Catherine's church (in 1541), which is located above the hamlet of Šarići. There is a built-in Romanesque transenna on its west facade; and there is a chapel of the same name near the church. built later than the church. People say that today's site of St. Roch's church, above the old parish house ( 1730), used to be the site of St. Anthony's parish church, which was built in 1602, renovated several times, and completely destroyed by fire in 1891. The building of the new parish church, which was dedicated to St. Anthony of Padua, began in 1898, in the part of the village called Srida sela; it was consecrated in 1901. This large and impressive building, dominating the village of Gornje Tučepi, was built in classic style with the marbled interior; the baroque altars had been brought from the old parish church.

The Church of St. Nikola Tavelić, built in 1989. and situated near the coastal motorway in the part of the village called Kraj, is the most recent church building in Tučepi.