Gibellina

Gibellina is a small city and comune in the Province of Trapani, the mountains of central Sicily, Italy. It was destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake.The new city, Gibellina Nuova, was rebuilt some 11 kilometres distant from the old one and it was designed by some of the most prominent artists and architects in Italy, called by the major, Ludovico Corrao to donate works of art to the city in order to help building it as an eccentric museum "en plein air". One of them, the Italian sculptor Pietro Consagra created a sculpture called "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.

As for the old town, the Ruderi di Gibellina' remained just as it was after the earthquake, practically a ghost-town till the italian artist Alberto Burri covered the entirety of the ruins in concrete, while preserving the streetscape, and so creating the famous "Cretto di Burri" out of it.