The province of Palermo
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Santa Cristina Gela (Zip Code 90030) is 130 km. distant from Agrigento, 133 km. from Caltanissetta, 228 km. from Catania, 150 km. from Enna, 276 km. from Messina, 28 km. from Palermo, which province it belongs to, 262 km. from Ragusa, 298 km. from Siracusa, 88 km. from Trapani. Photo © Comune di Santa Cristina Gela
The municipality has 867 inhabitants and an area of 3.855 hectares for a density of population of 22 inhabitants per square kilometre. It rises on an internal hilly area and is 674 metres above sea-level. The Town Hall is placed in via G. Castriota, tel. ++39 091-8570135 fax. ++39 091-8570502. Placed on a hill looking on the great valley of Malanoce, Santa Cristina Gela has a notable production of cereals, forages, grapes, olives and fruit. The first inhabited nucleus was founded in 1691 by a colony of Albanians coming from the near Piana dei Greci (the present Piana degli Albanesi) and was given the name of Santa Cristina. Photo © Comune di Santa Cristina Gela
In the very small town the language, habits and customs were Albanian (and still now Albanian dialect is spoken) and the inhabitants conformed to them. In the times the village had belonged to noble Naselli family, Dukes of Gela who added to the original name their homonymous name. The feud was dominion of this family until the abolition of feudal duties. The Cathedral Church with its eighteenth-century riliefs is very interesting from the architectonic point of view.
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