Cretto di Burri
Cretto di Burri
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Silvia C
Italy44 contributions
Jul 2023 • Friends
For years I have wanted to see this great work that I had only read about in person: perhaps it is my love for art, perhaps it is that I adore Burri, perhaps it is that I know the history of the place, the fact is that I felt a strong emotion in finding myself here walk through the cracks of the Grande Cretto…. What to say? A wonderful work, full of the physical and metaphysical meaning of the place.
Written 8 August 2023
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Kandym77
San Benedetto Del Tronto, Italy51 contributions
Jul 2024 • Family
Work of the famous artist Alberto Burri, it is placed as a work of environmental art because right above it existed the town of Gibellina destroyed by the earthquake of 1968. It is called Cretto which means Split. Burri designed this gigantic monument that traces the streets and alleys of the old city that are now cemented
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Written 28 July 2024
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Joe G
Centennial, CO21 contributions
Sept 2022 • Couples
Sicily is absolutely fantastic. So much to see - museums, galleries, Greek ruins, Palermo, Trapani, Monreale, Erice, Mt. Etna. Don't miss the eerie silence of Alburto Burri's memorial to the earthquake-devasrared town of Gebillina Vecchia.
Be sure and read Theresa Maggio's book The Stone Boudoir to get a feel of small town Sicily culture. Also, watch some of the Acorn or Mhz channel TV series Commisario Montalbano for a sense of contemporary Sicilian interpersonal interaction. The SE coastal town of Punta Secca is worth a few night's stay and is the setting for Montalbano's apartment that is available to rent as well as many others.
Be sure and read Theresa Maggio's book The Stone Boudoir to get a feel of small town Sicily culture. Also, watch some of the Acorn or Mhz channel TV series Commisario Montalbano for a sense of contemporary Sicilian interpersonal interaction. The SE coastal town of Punta Secca is worth a few night's stay and is the setting for Montalbano's apartment that is available to rent as well as many others.
Written 4 July 2023
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Agnese B
Aurigeno, Switzerland173 contributions
Jul 2024 • Friends
The Cretto di Burri or cretto di Gibellina is an Alberto Burri work, made between 1984 and 1989 and completed in 2015, on the site of the old town of Gibellina, completely destroyed by the 1968 Belice earthquake.
Maybe I'm ignorant in artistic matters, but I found it very disappointing: a pile of concrete that disfigures the landscape! A display case with an explanation of the work would be appropriate, with photos of the old town before and after the earthquake. So, even reading the explanations on the internet everything is just ugly!!
Road to get there full of holes: do these also date back to the earthquake???? 😡
Maybe I'm ignorant in artistic matters, but I found it very disappointing: a pile of concrete that disfigures the landscape! A display case with an explanation of the work would be appropriate, with photos of the old town before and after the earthquake. So, even reading the explanations on the internet everything is just ugly!!
Road to get there full of holes: do these also date back to the earthquake???? 😡
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Written 29 July 2024
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jan v
4 contributions
Jul 2023
impressive work of art
also something different from the classic city visits
apparently not promoted at all because during our visit of more than 1 hour we were there alone with our family
difficult to reach from the north (bad and narrow roads), better take a detour
also something different from the classic city visits
apparently not promoted at all because during our visit of more than 1 hour we were there alone with our family
difficult to reach from the north (bad and narrow roads), better take a detour
Written 7 August 2023
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laranickel
New York City, NY2 contributions
Apr 2018
"Cretto di Burri" by artist Alberto Burri is one of the largest pieces of land art. Constructed on top of the earthquake ruined village of Gibellina, Burri followed the former street plan covering the village with a white concrete maze. It is a formal and anti-formal dedication, patching and mending nature's destruction, solidifying an earthquake. Incredibly bright in the sun, it is soft and quiet and an obvious reference to interior vs exterior space by mimicking the agricultural patchwork of the surrounding farmland as well as the ghost of a village. Burri's work in general consists of un-art materials: burlap, tar, melted plastic, cracked paint/plaster etc.
Access the site by way of Poggioreale/Gibellina Vecchia from the east side of the hill...otherwise you will abruptly run into deep cracks and holes in the roads on the west side!
Access the site by way of Poggioreale/Gibellina Vecchia from the east side of the hill...otherwise you will abruptly run into deep cracks and holes in the roads on the west side!
Written 7 May 2018
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travelingworkingmom
Los Angeles, CA376 contributions
Aug 2018
This is a beautiful and serene place to visit. I found myself wishing we had brought water and a picnic. Is very bright and steep but I would have wanted to stay longer had I had a picnic. Was about 90 degrees when we went and there were people pushing a very happy baby in a stroller. Wear sunscreen.
There are no vendors here so go to the bathroom before coming and bring yourself water and anything else you might need.
We wore sneakers and athletic clothing so we could jump up on the higher parts of the installation - see photos of my husband on one of the top formations. Walk to the top and take photos on the way down versus stopping the entire route up.
We spent about 45 minutes here but could have spent 1.5 hours. Would be a good work out if you went up and down several isles.
There are no vendors here so go to the bathroom before coming and bring yourself water and anything else you might need.
We wore sneakers and athletic clothing so we could jump up on the higher parts of the installation - see photos of my husband on one of the top formations. Walk to the top and take photos on the way down versus stopping the entire route up.
We spent about 45 minutes here but could have spent 1.5 hours. Would be a good work out if you went up and down several isles.
Written 13 August 2018
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VCB_10
Palazzolo Acreide, Italy227 contributions
Oct 2014 • Couples
Having visited Ruderi di Poggioreale some 7kms to the east and driven around this area devastated by the January 1968 earthquake we were able to find the site, and whilst managed to get fairly close to it, apparently shouldn't have done as currently closed for renovation work! Even from a slight distance you get a feel for what has been done by Alberto Burri who to quote from the noticeboard, "...transformed the ruins into a work of art. Cement blocks are crossed by regular fissures which basically reproduce the street layout of old.". It is quite fascinating and certainly thought provoking.
Written 23 October 2014
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Pascal
United Kingdom450 contributions
Oct 2020 • Couples
After visiting the New (Nuova) Gibellina, (incredible too, the 1970s/1980s in a time capsule), we went to see the Old (Vecchia) Gibellina destroyed in 1968 by an earthquake.
It’s an impressive site and sight. There is nothing around to welcome visitors, but an easy car park to stop and walk around and in the sculpture is available right next to it.
It’s somehow beautiful and weird when you think of the destruction that happened there.
You can get amazing photos, very instagramable, especially if you have a drone.
You’re almost guaranteed to be by yourself at the moment, so few people know about it, as it’s not the usual temple thing to do.
I would definitely recommend it for people who wish to see something very different, very 1980s.
It’s an impressive site and sight. There is nothing around to welcome visitors, but an easy car park to stop and walk around and in the sculpture is available right next to it.
It’s somehow beautiful and weird when you think of the destruction that happened there.
You can get amazing photos, very instagramable, especially if you have a drone.
You’re almost guaranteed to be by yourself at the moment, so few people know about it, as it’s not the usual temple thing to do.
I would definitely recommend it for people who wish to see something very different, very 1980s.
Written 16 October 2020
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Carl G
London, UK36 contributions
Jun 2018 • Couples
The Cretto di Burri is a huge land artwork conceived by the late artist, Alberto Burri, which took 30 years to finish. It was built as a form of memorial on the ruins of the town of Gibellina, in the south-west of Sicily, which was destroyed by the Belice earthquake in 1968. The earthquake killed around 400-500 people in the area and made 100,000 homeless. It has the form of huge 1.6 metre high layer of concrete over the hillside town's ruins, into which are cut pathways where visitors can walk, which follow the line of the old streets and alleyways. While the structure is impressive, and certainly worth a visit, one has to ask does it really make any emotional connection with the disaster -- or connote anything of the suffering and destruction? In my view, its form is too blank and monolithic to achieve that. Our visit was not helped by the absence of any information about the work or the disaster on the site -- and the visitor centre was closed. Visitors with no prior knowledge would be left in the dark. Incidentally the site is always open and there is no charge to enter.
Six kilometres down the road past the Cretto you will find the still standing ruins of another town, Poggioreale, also destroyed by the earthquake (and like Gibellina, re-built several kilometres away). These decaying ruins, which are too dangerous to enter, but which can be viewed from surrounding roads, are much more evocative of the disastrous effects of the earthquake on thousands of lives, than the Cretto... and should certainly be visited at the same time as the artwork.
Six kilometres down the road past the Cretto you will find the still standing ruins of another town, Poggioreale, also destroyed by the earthquake (and like Gibellina, re-built several kilometres away). These decaying ruins, which are too dangerous to enter, but which can be viewed from surrounding roads, are much more evocative of the disastrous effects of the earthquake on thousands of lives, than the Cretto... and should certainly be visited at the same time as the artwork.
Written 3 July 2018
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Hi you, would you be able to tell me if there is a guard or someone looking after the place when you are there? Is there an entrance somewhere?
Written 22 August 2019
no, non c'è alcuna guardia e nessun ingresso specifico. si tratta di un'opera di landart completamente libera
Written 9 November 2020
Buongiorno, se dovessi andare al cretto verso sera, lo trovo illuminato o comunque visibile?
Written 3 February 2019
Non è illuminato. L’ora ideale è prima del tramonto, con una bellissima luce radente del sole da ovest, che crea un notevole gioco di ombre
Written 1 June 2019
Buongiorno sarò a Gibellina a metà Giugno, la visita al Cretto è libera? o ci sono orari?
Grazie
Written 25 May 2018
La visita è liberissima! Il cretto è fuori paese ben segnalato in aperta campagna! Non ci sono orari o vincoli di qualsiasi genere! Ci vuole solo spirito di ricerca!!
Written 26 May 2018
How can I get from Palermo or Gibellina Nuova to Cretto di Burri? Is there any public transport that goes there or is renting a car the only option?
Written 29 April 2017
Ciao, vorrei avere indicazioni più precise sulla strada da seguire: esco dallo svincolo autostradale de Santa Ninfa, e poi? ... da lí ci sn indicazioni x il Cretto?
Grazie
Written 17 September 2015
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