This incredible work of urban art was inaugurated on 10th August 1963: almost a kilometre of mosaic flooring designed by twenty national and international artists to colour the town’s seafront promenade.
The event represented the culmination of a cultural season that, since the 1930s with Futurism, saw Albissola Marina become a privileged destination for artists, writers, collectors and gallery owners from all over the world.
In such a context, two exceptional town councillors, the worker Adolfo Testa and the artist Aligi Sassu, decided to build the new promenade, conceived as a work of public art that could be walked on.
At the beginning of the 2000s, due to an irrecoverable physical deterioration, the mosaics were redone with new Bisazza ceramic materials. On that occasion, the City added the twenty-first mosaic by Asger Jorn, not present in the original work, and later the series was continued with four new mosaics by Giorgio Bonelli, Aurelio Caminati, Edoardo Arroyo and Guy de Rougemont.
Walking on the "Passeggiata degli Artisti" it is also possible to admire other numerous works of art, such as the "Nature" by Lucio Fontana and the "Monumento ai Caduti di Tutte le Guerre" (Monument to the Fallen of All Wars) by Leonardo Leoncillo, which underline the strong link of the town with art and culture, which have made Albissola Marina a real open-air museum.
