Gibellina
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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.
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. 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[Agenzia Giornalistica Italia news story on death and burial of Consagra].
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