Demonym(s) Gibellinesi Local time Monday 7:42 PM Postal code 91024 | Elevation 233 m (764 ft) Time zone CET (UTC+1) | |
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Weather 13°C, Wind N at 5 km/h, 80% Humidity Points of interest Museo Civico di Arte Contemporanea, Museo delle Trame Mediterranee, Casa del farmacista - Franco Purini | ||
Gibellina (Sicilian: Gibbiddina) is a small city and comune in the mountains of central Sicily, Italy in the Province of Trapani. It was destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake.
Map of Gibellina, Province of Trapani, Italy
The new city, Gibellina Nuova, was rebuilt some 11 kilometres (7 mi) distant from the old one. The new city was designed by many of the most prominent artists and architects in Italy, but done in a piecemeal fashion so that the parts of the new city bear little relation to one another or to the indigenous architecture of Sicily.
Ruderi di Gibellina (as the ruins of the city are now referred to) remained just as it was after the earthquake, practically a ghost-town. Artist Alberto Burri covered the entirety of the ruins in concrete, while preserving the streetscape. Additionally, Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra and Senator Ludovico Corrao formed an open-air museum with a Consagra sculpture "Porta del Belice" or "Door to Belice" at the entrance. Consagra expressed a wish to be buried at Gibellina on his deathbed in July 2005.