Urban N.O.S.E. (Project completed)

Situated on Southern Sicily Coast, Gela is the fifth Sicilian municipality for number of inhabitants, the 71st largest city in Italy and the main agricultural, industrial and commercial centre in the district of Caltanissetta, capital of the same name province. Being a reference point for a large territory of almost 200,000 inhabitants, for decades Gela has been and goes on waiting to be promoted as capital of the so-called Province of the Gulf.

Gela is nowadays one of the most important industrial centres in Sicily, with its Petrol-Chemical Pole (one among the largest in Europe) and the ASI (Industrial Development Board) industrial area with plentiful productive SMEs.

Important agricultural production (appreciated vegetables, wheat, olives and fruits): during the last years have been created several cooperatives for the production, manufacturing and commercialisation of agricultural products.

Tertiary sector in Gela counts a considerable number of family-managed SMEs.

Notwithstanding the activation in the early sixties of a Petrol - Chemical Pole – which engendered the arrival of a huge number of foreign workers in the town, since early nineteen hundreds very numerous have been Gela inhabitants obliged to migrating for job-searching reasons. At the same conditions of many other southern emigrants, the main destinations were, essentially: Northern Italy, Germany and America.

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