Gela

By bus

Buses run from Palermo, Agrigento, Catania, Caltanissetta, Caltagirone and Enna. A couple a day also come east along the coast from Ragusa, Noto, Modica and Syracuse. There are national and international bus routes connecting Gela with Naples, Bari, Rome, Milano and more destinations.

By train

Train services through Gela station are interrupted except for a couple of trains running to and from Syracuse and Modica (no service on Sundays).

• Gela railway station

  address: Piazzale Stazione

By plane

Gela is served by the Comiso Airport (34 km away) or the Catania International Airport (95 km away).

The adjacent bus and train stations are about 15 minutes walk from the centre of town, although there are quite regular city buses.

• Regional Archaeological Museum of Gela

  address: Corso Vittorio Emanuele, 1
  Has an important collection of attractive red and black painted Greek vases, coins, sarcophaguses, statues, and jewelry.

• The Acropolis of the old Greek city close to the museum with ruins of buildings and three temples with the symbolic doric column
• The Greek fortifications have some impressive walls in an attractive setting by the beach. Nearby are the remains of the oldest Greek public baths in Italy
• The Chiesa Madre (cathedral) in the main square (Piazza Umberto) with a neoclassical facade
• The Castelluccio is a little medieval castle in the fields with a good panorama towards the town
• The Mànfria tower is a little 17th-century tower set on a hill top in front of the Mediterranean sea 8 km from the town
• The Villa Garibaldi is the main public garden in town with a lot of ancient trees and wonderful views to the coastline

• A walking tour in central town around Corso Vittorio Emanuele, Piazza S.Agostino, Via Bresmes, Piazza Roma with old goodlooking churches, buldings and a lot of shops
• Go to the Gela beach resorts at Lungomare Federico II (promenade) for tanning, swimming and running in the morning and have some drink, dancing and relaxing at night
• Visit the natural park around Biviere Lake, 8 km off towards Scoglitti on the south coast
• Take some photo of a wonderful sunset by the little port (porto rifugio) or by the pier in central Gela
• Have fun in one of the town night hotspots with bar and pubs (Salandra and Roma squares, Macchitella Avenue and Lungomare).

• Gela is famous for a very good tasting bread, street-food and pizza. Also being a seafront town in Gela you can enjoy seafood plates, a very good ice-cream and pastries.
• About the Gelese rosticceria (local delicacies) ask for impanatas, arancine, sfogliatine, crocchè di patate and as dessert some cannoli, raviole, crispelle and cassatine.

• La Brace

  address: via Palazzi

• L'Arlecchino

  address: via Manzoni

• Ristorante Centrale Totó

  phone: +39 0933 913104
  address: Via Cascino Generale, 99

• Jackie'O

  address: via Lussemburgo

• Piccadilly

  address: via Palazzi

• Habana

  address: via Palazzi

• Punto Zero

  address: piazza Roma

• Rossini's

  address: via Rossini

• Mandragola

  address: via Rossini

• La Capannina

  address: viale Mazara del Vallo

• Controcorrente

  address: Lungomare Federico II

• Re Nero

  address: via Europa

• Peccati di gola

  address: viale Cortemaggiore

• Tre_Zone

  address: Lungomare Federico II

• La Duna

  address: Lungomare Federico II

• B&B Antiche Mura

  address: Spagna 1/a via Degli Appennini 1

• Hotel Sole

  address: Via Mare 32

• Villa Keratea

  address: C.da Settefarine SP81

• Hotel Sileno

  address: largo Soldato Mancino

• Hotel Villa Peretti

  address: strada statale 117 bis

• B&B 21

  address: viale Indipendenza

• B&B Gorgone

  address: Lungomare Federico II

• Aurora residence

  address: via Agatocle

• B&B Santiago

  address: via Garibaldi

• Residence Demetra

  address: via Tevere

• Sicily Guest House B&B

  address: via sindaco Solito 143

• B&B la Villetta

  address: via C. Dalla Chiesa

• B&B Villa Marinetti

  address: via torre Manfria

• B&B Borgo Manfria

  address: SS 115 Manfria

• B&B La Palma

  address: via degli Appennini

• Boomerang affittacamere

  address: via dei Gerani, Manfria

• Il Veliero B&B

  address: via delle Magnolie, Manfria

• Archéo Small Unique Hotel

  address: viale Indipendenza, 7

• B&B Girasole

  address: via Ducezio

• B&B Erasmus

  address: corso S. Aldisio

• Country House Tenuta Grea

  address: c.da Borgo Manfria

• Villa Giocolano B&B

  address: c.da Spinasanta