Ripatransone, despite the distance of 12 km from the sea, is situated at an altitude remarkable: the hill where it is located is itself a watchtower natural that ranges from the Mountain of Flowers, Gran Sasso, the mountains Sibillini. Ripatransone is a center of artistic keen interest, even in recent years has been able to not only preserve its heritage and landscape art but to promote the rediscovery; is important to the civic art gallery and plaster casts “One Gera” one of the museums and unique composite of Marche features a collection including paintings by 70 artists from four hundred to the present day and masterpieces such as a triptych and three boards by Vittore Crivelli, woodcuts Adolfo De Carolis and an interesting collection of ceramics and pottery Renaissance. Just because on the highest hill in the area, Ripatransone is typical of the wine Rosso Piceno. The extensive municipality, which falls partly in the Rosso Piceno Superiore, is characterized by intensive agricultural production. Sharing in the associations City Wine and Oil City, well represents the typical Marche landscape so characteristically marked by the hand of man. The valleys and hills that gently slope down to the sea, carved by small streams, have been shaped over the centuries by the work of farmers: the nature naturalis coexists with nature artificialis in an intense and balanced living exchange. Special features of this area are the disturbing and surprising pieces of land in character gullies. The country is the narrowest street in Italy, as well as one of the historic theaters of the territories.
