Gibellina
Sign in to saveGibellina (Sicilian: Jibbiḍḍina, Arabic: "little mount" - جبل صغير) is a small city and comune in the Province of Trapani, the mountains of western Sicily, Italy. It was destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake.
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Gibellina is a small city in western Sicily, Italy, that was devastated by a major earthquake in 1968. The town's name comes from Arabic, meaning "little mount," reflecting Sicily's rich cultural history.
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- Italian comune.name
- Gibellina
- Italian comune.official_name
- Comune di Gibellina
- Italian comune.image_skyline
- Panorama di Gibellina Nuova.JPG
- Italian comune.image_shield
- Gibellina-Stemma.png
- Italian comune.region
- Sicily
- Italian comune.province
- Trapani (TP)
- Italian comune.mayor
- Salvatore Sutera
- Italian comune.area_total_km2
- 46.57
- Italian comune.population_total
- 4028
- Italian comune.population_as_of
- 28 February 2017
- Italian comune.population_demonym
- Gibellinesi
- Italian comune.elevation_m
- 233
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Gibellina (Sicilian: Jibbiḍḍina, Arabic: "little mount" - جبل صغير) is a small city and comune in the Province of Trapani, the mountains of western Sicily, Italy. It was destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake.
The new city, Gibellina Nuova, was rebuilt some from the old one and it was designed by some of the most prominent artists and architects in Italy. They were summoned by Ludovico Corrao to provide works of art to the city in order to help build it up 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 on his deathbed a wish to be buried at Gibellina in July 2005.