Gibellina

Infobox CityIT
img_coa =
official_name = Comune di Gibellina
name = Gibellina
region = flagicon|Sicily Sicily
province = Trapani (TP)
elevation_m = 227
area_total_km2 = 45
population_as_of = 201
population_total = 4677
population_density_km2 = 104
timezone = CET, UTC+1
coordinates = coord|37|49|0|N|12|52|0|E
mapx = 37.8
mapy = 12.9
frazioni =
telephone = 0924
postalcode = 91024
gentilic = Gibellinesi
saint = Saint Roch
day = August 16
mayor = Vito Bonanno (since May 16, 2005)
website = [http://www.gibellinaonline.it/ http://www.gibellinaonline.it/]

Gibellina is a small city in the mountains of central Sicily, Italy in the Province of Trapani. It was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968. [ [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,837724,00.html The Day the Earth Shook] , Time Magazine, January 26, 1968]

The new city, Gibellina Nuova, was rebuilt some 20 km 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 shape of the buildings and 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 [ [http://www.agi.it/english/news.pl?doc=200507161738-1121-RT1-CRO-0-NF11&page=0&id=agionline-eng.oggitalia Agenzia Giornalistica Italia news story on death and burial of Consagra] ] .

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