Recanati is also the town of Lorenzo lotto. The great Venetian painter, a leading figure of the Renaissance, often travelled to the Marche always finding a welcoming place and enriching the cities where he stayed with priceless masterpieces. The artist's works are kept inside the Villa Colloredo Mels. This Imposing noble villa takes its name from the Friulian family of landowners, the Colloredo Mels, who once inhabited it and houses the Civic Museums since 1998. The sixteenth-century staircase and the eighteenth-century paintings enrich the building where absolute masterpieces are kept: four of the most beautiful works of the Renaissance master Lorenzo Lotto (among which stands out the famous Annunciation).
Here you can immerse yourself in the painting by Lorenzo Lotto, from the bright colors and the sharp light of his youth to the softer tones and the gentle anatomies of the mature age. The guided tour Lotto alle cinque- Lotto at five o'clock- will accompany you as an authentic journey into the restless soul of the artist, who left the big city to work in the province, avoiding the easy success and preferring the most human aspects of the artistic thought.
Inside the museum there is also a section entirely dedicated to Giacomo Leopardi and the Golden Bull of Emperor Frederick II of Swabia. Villa Colloredo also houses the impressive Museo dell'Emigrazione Marchigiana (Museum of the Emigration of people from the Marche region), a multimedia and interactive museum dedicated to the countless people who abandoned their homeland in search of luck between the end of '800 and the beginning of '900.
The visit to the villa ends with the archaeological section, the historical and the modern section. You can visit the entire network of the Civic Museums in Recanati (Villa Colloredo, Torre del Borgo, Museo Beniamino Gigli) with a pass. Moreover, next to the Villa, there's the Park of Villa Colloredo Mels, a public park where you can enter for free; it dates back to the mid-1800s and houses the CEA WWF, an environmental education centre with educational purposes.
