Discover the surreal beauty of a city reborn from ruins. Explore the fusion of history and futurism in Sicily's most enigmatic site.
Sicily is usually very tactile. It’s about the heat, the sea, the smell of food, and narrow alleys where even two mopeds struggle to pass each other. It’s about cities that grew in layers, from the Greeks to the Arabs, the Normans to the Spaniards. But today will be a different Sicily. I suggest heading to Gibellina, a city that didn’t grow organically but was purely imagined. After the 1968 earthquake, Old Gibellina was completely destroyed. People perished, homes vanished, and the familiar fabric of life was gone. Instead of rebuilding everything as it was, a bold and strange decision was made: to build a new city from scratch as a concept.
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