{"id":9714,"date":"2026-04-28T13:54:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:54:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/?page_id=9714"},"modified":"2026-04-30T12:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T10:11:18","slug":"ancona-open-air","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/en\/itineraries\/ancona-open-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancona Open Air"},"content":{"rendered":"
[mk_page_section][vc_column][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h1″ color=”#222222″ size=”48″ force_font_size=”true” size_tablet=”42″ size_phone=”36″ line_height=”90″ font_weight=”600″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none”]Ancona Open Air: a city-wide museum across streets, squares and neighbourhoods[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_divider style=”thin_solid” divider_width=”custom_width” custom_width=”100″ align=”left” thin_single_color=”#ff0000″ thickness=”3″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”40″ visibility=”visible-dt” el_class=”hide-on-mobile”][mk_divider style=”thin_solid” divider_width=”custom_width” custom_width=”80″ thin_single_color=”#ff0000″ thickness=”3″ margin_top=”0″ margin_bottom=”40″ el_class=”hide-on-desktop”][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”span” color=”#222222″ size=”22″ line_height=”140″ font_weight=”300″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none”]Ancona is more than museums and galleries. Look up as you walk along the harbour, cross a square or stroll through a park, and you’ll notice that the city is also an open-air museum: sculptures, monuments and works of urban art in dialogue with the landscape, the history and the everyday life of those who live here.[\/mk_fancy_title][\/vc_column][\/mk_page_section][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777376760851{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]This itinerary takes you through the works mapped in the “Ancona Open Air” Art Guide<\/a>, produced by the Culture and Tourism Department of the Comune di Ancona as part of the city’s bid for the title of Italian Capital of Culture 2028.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/ancona-street-art.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Palazzo degli Anziani” align=”center” margin_bottom=”40″ drop_shadow=”true”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777376821646{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]The natural starting point is the Mole Vanvitelliana<\/a>, home to some of the most striking installations on the route. In the outer courtyard, Sbarco<\/em> by Velasco Vitali – a silver-coloured hull roughly fourteen metres long – evokes the themes of migration and freedom.<\/p>\n

On the outer walkway, Mimmo Paladino’s great red Cavallo<\/em> gazes out to sea with its hollow eye, at once archaic in form and entirely contemporary in spirit.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/monumenti.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Cavallo – Paladino” align=”center” margin_bottom=”40″ drop_shadow=”true” drop_shadow_angle=”45″ drop_shadow_distance=”8″ drop_shadow_blur=”20″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777376837548{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]Walking along Lungomare Vanvitelli, you reach Molo Clementino and Enzo Cucchi’s Fontana dei due soli<\/em>: a long stone bench in Istrian limestone facing the sea, celebrating Ancona’s unique geography as the only Italian city from which both sunrise and sunset can be seen over the Adriatic.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/zitti_8343.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Fontana dei Due Soli – Cucchi” align=”center” margin_bottom=”40″ drop_shadow=”true”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777376906748{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Heading up into the city centre, Piazza Stamira<\/a> is home to Guido Armeni’s Monument to Stamira<\/em>: the figure of Ancona’s heroine launches skyward with deliberately elongated proportions, a sculptural gesture that crystallises courage and civic spirit.<\/p>\n

A short walk away on Corso Stamira, the facade of the former Casa del Mutilato preserves Mentore Maltoni’s large Arengario<\/em> bas-relief, a refined example of 1930s realist sculpture.<\/p>\n

On Corso Carlo Alberto, Giorgio Bompadre’s Due Arcobaleni<\/em> – two enamelled metal arches – enter into a poetic conversation with light and sky, part of a triptych connecting Ancona with Fermignano and Pesaro.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/bompadre-scaled-1.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Due Arcobaleni – Bompadre” align=”center” margin_bottom=”40″ drop_shadow=”true”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777376946909{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

In Piazza Pertini, pause in front of Valeriano Trubbiani’s Mater Amabilis<\/em>: an unstable, visionary metal structure evoking Fellini’s set designs, inviting reflection on the bond between humanity and nature.<\/p>\n

More works by this towering figure of twentieth-century Marche art can be found inside the Pinacoteca Civica “Francesco Podesti”<\/a>.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/ancona_piazza_pertini_gruppo_scultoreo_mater_amabilis_di_valeriano_trubbiani.jpeg” image_size=”full” title=”Mater Amabilis – Trubbiani” align=”center” margin_bottom=”40″ drop_shadow=”true”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777377001510{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Climb to the Parco del Pincio<\/a> to find Pericle Fazzini’s Monument to the Resistance<\/em>, reached via a steep staircase lined with concrete monoliths and sixteen iron plaques narrating the story of Ancona’s partisan movement.<\/p>\n

The entrance gate itself – Vele al vento<\/em> by Giovanna Fiorenzi – is a work of art: a wrought-iron composition evoking the wreckage of war carried by a wind that symbolically drives it towards liberation and renewal.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/parco-del-pincio.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Parco del Pincio” align=”center” margin_bottom=”40″ drop_shadow=”true”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777377039349{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

Continue on to the Parco del Cardeto<\/a>, the city’s green lung overlooking the sea. Along the panoramic footpath you’ll encounter Floriano Ippoliti’s La Porta dei Mu<\/em>, a circular bronze sculpture engraved with cosmic symbols that quietly frames the landscape beyond.<\/p>\n

Further along, Eugenio Tibaldi’s site-specific installation Tensione Superficiale<\/em> – created in 2025 from a disused sailing boat and a canoe – reframes discarded materials as the stuff of renewal, opening a living dialogue between urban space and nature.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/il-mare-dal-parco-del-cardeto.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Parco del Cardeto” align=”center” margin_bottom=”40″ drop_shadow=”true”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777377050468{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

The itinerary extends beyond traditional sculpture. At the Galleria del Risorgimento, artist RUN transformed the underpass in 2024 into a large painted library incorporating the city’s historical and architectural landmarks.<\/p>\n

In the Capodimonte neighbourhood, a series of murals created for Anconacrea2020FF covers facades and stairways, turning the entire quarter into an open-air gallery.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/street-art-ancona.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Street Art a Capodimonte” align=”center” margin_bottom=”40″ drop_shadow=”true”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777377073163{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

If you’d like to extend your exploration, head to the campuses of the Universit\u00e0 Politecnica delle Marche: at the former Caserma Villarey you’ll find Aligi Sassu’s Grande Cavallo Reale<\/em>, while the Faculty of Engineering on Via Brecce Bianche is home to Trubbiani’s Tarpare le ali<\/em>, a flock of skylarks with broken wings that ranks among the artist’s most powerful works.<\/p>\n

On the city’s eastern headland at Via Posatora, Eliseo Mattiacci’s Inclinata al Sol Levante<\/em> tilts its steel axis towards the rising sun, drawing the horizon into the sculpture itself.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”20″][mk_image src=”https:\/\/anconatourism.it\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/inclinata-al-sol-levante.jpg” image_size=”full” title=”Inclinata al Sole Levante – Mattiacci” align=”center” margin_bottom=”40″ drop_shadow=”true”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text css=”.vc_custom_1777377083456{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n

All works are georeferenced in the official bilingual art guide, available free of charge in Italian and English.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][mk_button corner_style=”rounded” size=”large” url=”https:\/\/www.comuneancona.it\/ankonline\/cultura\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/4\/2026\/04\/ancona_cielo_aperto-dep_IT_def.pdf” target=”_blank” align=”center”]DOWNLOAD THE “ANCONA OPEN AIR” ART GUIDE[\/mk_button][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row disable_element=”yes”][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”80″][vc_gmaps link=”#E-8_JTNDaWZyYW1lJTIwc3JjJTNEJTIyaHR0cHMlM0ElMkYlMkZ3d3cuZ29vZ2xlLmNvbSUyRm1hcHMlMkZkJTJGdSUyRjAlMkZlbWJlZCUzRm1pZCUzRDExR2VRVFlmMC1XRlFyRTdERFlTQWJTZWRMXy1NNDczWSUyMiUyMHdpZHRoJTNEJTIyNjQwJTIyJTIwaGVpZ2h0JTNEJTIyNDgwJTIyJTNFJTNDJTJGaWZyYW1lJTNF” css_animation=”fadeInLeft” css=”.vc_custom_1622127970498{background-color: #dd3333 !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row fullwidth=”true” fullwidth_content=”false” disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1777361854389{background-color: #02132c !important;}” id=”newsletter-intro”][vc_column][mk_padding_divider size=”110″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][mk_padding_divider size=”50″ visibility=”visible-sm”][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h3″ color=”#ffffff” size=”36″ force_font_size=”true” size_tablet=”30″ size_phone=”30″ font_weight=”400″ letter_spacing=”1″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none” align=”center”]Iscriviti alla nostra newsletter[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_fancy_title tag_name=”h3″ color=”#ffffff” font_weight=”400″ margin_bottom=”0″ font_family=”none” align=”center”]Rimani aggiornato sulle nostre attivit\u00e0 e tutti i prossimi spettacoli.[\/mk_fancy_title][mk_padding_divider visibility=”visible-sm”][mk_padding_divider size=”10″ visibility=”hidden-sm”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row fullwidth=”true” fullwidth_content=”false” disable_element=”yes” css=”.vc_custom_1777361857995{background-color: #02132c !important;}” id=”newsletter”][vc_column width=”1\/6″][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”2\/3″ el_class=”newsletter”][vc_column_text el_class=”footer-subscription-form” css=”.vc_custom_1698406905613{margin-bottom: 0px !important;}”]\n\t

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