Gela
This splendid archaeological museum offers insight into Gela's great artistic past. It contains artefacts from the city's ancient acropolis and is famed…
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Gela
Gela offers a fascinating and well-run archaeology museum and the well-preserved remains of the city's ancient fortifications. Apart from those significant attractions – and a distinguished past as one of Sicily's great ancient cities – however, Gela is now a chaotic industrial centre with a reputation as a mafia hot spot. Little remains of its heyday as the economic engine room of the great Greek colony that eventually founded Akragas, Eraclea Minoa and Selinunte.
Attractions
Must-see attractions
Greek Fortifications of Capo Soprano
Gela
Built in 333 BC along Gela's western coastline at Capo Soprano by the tyrant of Syracuse, Timoleon, Gela's ancient Greek fortifications are remarkably…
Gela
Behind Gela's archaeological museum, you can see the scant remains of the city's ancient Greek acropolis. Adding little to the atmosphere are the belching…
Gela
Some 500m from the city walls, next to the hospital, are Sicily's only surviving Greek baths, which date from the 4th century BC.
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