Gibellina

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Comune di Gibellina

Country	Italy
Region	Sicily
Province	Trapani (TP)
Mayor	Vito Bonanno (since May 16, 2005)

Elevation	227 m
Area	45 km²
Population
- Total (as of 201)	4,677
- Density	104/km²
Time zone	CET, UTC+1
Coordinates	37°49′0″N, 12°52′0″E
Gentilic	Gibellinesi
Dialing code	0924
Postal code	91024

Patron	Saint Roch
- Day	August 16
Location of Gibellina in Italy
Website: http://www.comunedigibellina.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.

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^[1].