By Air

The area has no airports those closer to the city of Gela in Catania are almost 100 km and 220 km in Palermo.However the imminent activation of the airport of Comiso less than 40 km away so it is likely that some of the Gela travelers will find it more convenient to use.During the Second World War, 3 km from the city center was built the military airfield at Ponte Olivo.The project to build an airport in the Plain of Gela (for which he was created a separate entity in the service of central-southern Sicily is soon gone for the low incidence with which local governments have taken forward the process.Now it would make more sense crare such a structure having regard to similar initiatives carried out in neighboring provinces.The territory has a private heliport in the CBD Enimed Contrada Ponte Olivo and a Airfield Male Died in the district.

By Train

Gela has a large modern railway station, airport intermediate single track line-Canicattì Syracuse, which connects to the capital Palermo and Caltanissetta and Catania-terminus of the railroad-Caltagirone Gela.The station has seen Gela increasingly reducing the number of travelers and is now part of the category "silver" according to the classification of stations italiane.Adiacente Trenitalia station is the cargo terminal at Gela.

By Bus

The bus service is operated from the auction in the city (Sicily Transportation Company).The line is the busiest No 1, which connects the train station to the city center, Caposoprano (Hospital) and Macchitella.For the connection of the various city neighborhoods are used lines 12 "shuttle" with small buses best suited to operating on roads in the center.The connection to the fraction of Manfria is run by a local firm.During holidays are established races extraordinary connection to the city center and the cemetery outside the urban Farello.During the summer months special bus services serving the city's waterfront.

By Road

Gela is central with respect to some major roads in Sicily.It is crossed by the long road that links 115 through Ragusa Syracuse Trapani and Agrigento.It is accessible from Highway 417 through the Catania Caltagirone, Piazza Armerina, Enna and from across the Central Highway 117a Sicula "north-south" which once completed will link in Santo Stefano di Camastra on the Tyrrhenian side. The current capital of the province of Caltanissetta is reached by taking State Road 626 Valley Sauce joins the SS 115 between Gela and Licata in the district Burgio (Butera) State Route 190 connects the Solfare Gela Riesi and Canicatti.Some roads linking it to Niscemi Scoglitti Butera.Gela-term European route E45 and is the point of arrival A18 Siracusa-Gela under construction for decades. The city bypass still incomplete was built only for a distance of about 6 km in the districts and Piana Farello of the Lord.The Regional Province is providing the construction of a bypass that allows the temporary diversion of heavy traffic outside the town.

By Ferry

Gela has two port facilities Port Island for business purposes only and the port-fishing retreat for tourist use.A third is abandoned for decades (the pier sbarcatoio).There are however stable connections for use by passengers.The island is the port-equipped to accommodate large merchant ships, tonnage, other categories of vessels, in emergencies, are permitted only with explicit authorization from the local Port Authority.The port mouthpiece with depths shelter having very low (less than 2 meters) allows only the traffic of smaller vessels it is still subject to public and private investment that should increase the usability. Until 1994 he was active with a weekly Malta by catamaran.

Regional Archaeological Museum, Teatro Municipal Aeschylus, Mother Church of Gela, Lido The Shell, Feast of Madonna of Grace, Festa patronale

Regional Archaeological Museum

is located next to the Acropolis and was built in the mid- fifties by the Ministry of Public Works on a project of architect Louis Pasquarelli with funding from the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno.The inauguration was on 21 September of 1958.In 1984 the Museum was the subject of extension work required as a result of new exhibits to be displayed.The exhibition and educational courses were fully renovated in 1995.The last works made ​​since 1995 have completely renewed in the exhibition is educational and didactic equipment.The museum through pottery, bronzes and coins the history of ancient Gela and the surrounding area from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages.It contains about 4200 objects distributed chronologically from prehistoric times to the Middle Ages.The museum is divided into two floors.Very extensive collections relating to Gela Greek materials coming from the Acropolis the area of Capo Soprano from the store of Bosco Littorio and cemeteries.

Teatro Municipal Aeschylus

is the oldest theater in the city of Gela in Sicily.Originally nineteenth century (or earlier) the current structure is the daughter of the imposing structure on a restoration last decade in turn completely rebuilt in the 20s and 30s of last century.After more than thirty years of closure the theater would reopen in the first half of 2012.Like other coastal towns and active trading of Sicily Newfoundland had the need for a meeting place and culture for the better-off.So in the first half of the 800 most wealthy landowners of the city in collaboration with the municipal administration decided to finance the construction of a theater a small but elegant where you can hold plays and concerts.As the area was chosen for its construction the land on which at one time was the church of St. John of God (with a Shelter) in a downtown location: St. Augustine Square (one of the most beautiful in the city).

Mother Church of Gela

is an example of neoclassical who excels in the historic town of Bay.Interesting is the external facade of the interior rich in works of art.The Mother Church was built between 1766 and 1799 before the main town square (Piazza Umberto I, formerly the Dome), in place of the fallen church of Santa Maria de Theatre, and was completed with the creation in 1844 of the front neoclassical stone sandstone and with the rise of the bell tower in 1837 designed by Emanuele Di Bartolo . For its construction were probably exploited the boulders from the old church, in turn, from the temples and monuments of the ancient Greek city.It seems that during the eighteenth century, the Mother Church of Newfoundland, now Gela, was for some time Cathedral because the bishop of Syracuse (whose diocese belonged to the city) on the run from Syracuse settled in this church which was located in the town next the border of the diocese.

Lido The Shell

Historic seaside resort in Sicily at the Waterfront Gela.Among the fifties and sixties it became one of the most renowned local island not only for the beautiful beach below, but especially for social events that housed boasting the presence of the most distinguished figures in the worlds of entertainment, culture and politics of 'era. Following the strong pollution of the marine coast of Gela who was the victim, "The Shell" was always less crowded up to permanently close its doors around 1980 . Reduced to a ruin full of memories, recently part of the structure has collapsed but the local Superintendent announced his next restoration and recovery.The beach or "cottage", as it was called at the time, was built on the same site of a shore of the table called "Gela" and that was mounted in the summer months along the shoreline as many others since the second half of the nineteenth century . In the latter performed well in the dance, the Duce Benito Mussolini during his visit in 1937 in the city.

Feast of Madonna of Grace

It is the largest religious event heard from local people.The festival is characterized by a procession of barefoot devotees through the streets of the city high in the wake of nineteenth-century statue as she waits for the offers of money and precious and the ceremony of undressing the children pardoned by Madonna.All this is accompanied by large candles carried by hand garlanded by the faithful.The event concludes with the return of the statue and fireworks at sea. Side events are the Market on July 2 Sea.

Festa patronale

The patron saint of Gela who plays the September 8 is linked to the old discovery by a farmer a Byzantine painting of the Madonna Alemanna (on a gold background) in the area where the village was built Aldisio Sanctuary on the last reconstruction in 1985 the shrine is visited by pilgrims throughout the year and especially during the days preceding the festival.The festival is characterized by the procession of the painting through the main streets of the upper town accompanied by other traditional events including the greasy pole in the sea or "do IOCU palliantino" that symbolically closes the bathing season Gela, the exhibition of local art and crafts "Art Spur" sports tournaments concerts the market via Mare and art contests and photography.

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