The Sicilian village of Gibellina was destroyed by an earthquake in 1968, but its ruins were to be reborn as a spectacular ...

Alberto Burri’s land art masterpiece, Grande Cretto, which was 30 years in the making, was finally opened to the public in Sicily this past Saturday. Grande Cretto is a sprawling concrete landscape of ...

Gibellina, Italy (CNN) — Sicily’s landscapes are a mix of dreamy coastline, rugged peaks and rolling hills that are every bit as spectacular as those in Tuscany. But in the far west of the ...

Soar over the Cretto di Burri in Italy, a hauntingly beautiful landscape artwork that serves as a colossal shroud over the ...

To mark the hundredth anniversary of the birth of Alberto Burri the Grande Cretto di Gibellina was completed, it is one of the largest works of landscape art in Europe As you walk through the cracks ...

In 1968, the small town of Gibellina in Sicily was flattened by the colossal Belice earthquake, a magnitude 5.5 quake that killed hundreds and left 100,000 homeless. Planners were unable to rebuild ...

An enormous shroud of white cement covers a hillside in the remote of western Sicily. It is both land art and a memorial to the town of Gibellina that was devastated by an earthquake in January 1968.

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