Marche Breaks

Monte Vidon Corrado is the most reasonable explanation of how nature can lead the way to culture.

To verify this you must arrive as far as the old town and then look out over one of the many terraces which from the walls of the town open out towards Mount Conero, the Gran Sasso mountain, the Sibillini mountains and the Adriatic sea.

Then you will understand why the paintings of Osvaldo Licini, who was born and lived here, have those colours and those plays of spaces that won him the well deserved first prize of the XXIX Venice Biennal Exhibition in 1958.

For Licini the immense speciality of the skies of his hometown were not however a refuge but an outpost for anticipating the movement of a transforming pictorial culture.

The “Centro Studi Osvaldo Licini” is at your disposal, if you wish to read up on this artist who is considered to be one of the most important masters pf European painting of the twentieth century.

In the old town you will also be able to find traces of a medieval past, of when the hamlet was occupied by the Malatesta and the Sforza families; recent archaeological finds suggest that the origins of the place go back to the Picena civilization.