Church of Sant'Agostino, Gela – Manfria Tower loop from Ristorante Scirocco
Church of Sant'Agostino, Gela – Manfria Tower loop from Ristorante Scirocco
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Church of Sant'Agostino, Gela – Manfria Tower loop from Ristorante Scirocco
05:58
86.7km
850m
Mountain biking
Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Suitable for all skill levels. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.
Last updated: May 15, 2026
Tips
Includes a very steep uphill segment
You may need to push your bike.
After 77.3 km for 58 m
Waypoints
Start point
Parking
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15.9 km
Spiaggia della Playa
Beach
63.7 km
Church of Sant'Agostino, Gela
Highlight • Religious Site
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63.8 km
Church of San Francesco di Paola and Former Regina Margherita Orphanage
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The facade of the church is characterized by an elegant portal in the late Baroque style dominated by the coat of arms of the religious order of the saint. Inside there are several statues and some eighteenth-century paintings.
Adjacent and communicating with the church is the Regina Margherita di Gela Orphanage, an eighteenth-century building with a large internal courtyard, originally a convent of the Minim Fathers, which in addition to having permanently hosted orphan girls, was also the seat of the nursery and various schools .
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64.1 km
Mother Church of Santa Maria Assunta, Gela
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64.9 km
Monument to the Fallen of the Sea
Highlight • Monument
71.0 km
Nature Beach
Highlight • Beach
71.5 km
Jubilee Cross of Montelungo
Highlight • Monument
On January 19, 2001, the "Holy Cross of Jerusalem" was brought from Rome. From there the Franciscan Father, raising the Cross, blessed the city, the sea and all the surrounding territory. The project was created by the architect. Roberto Loggia and, for the structural calculations, the engineer collaborated. Salvatore Catania. The appropriate authorizations were obtained from the competent authorities and the first stone was laid on Friday 24 April 2001. The three structural walls (about 4 meters high) were built in 2003. Waiting to complete the work with the large metal Cross (approximately 12.50 meters high).
A large "sign", the Cross, visible from the whole city and permanently illuminated, will be placed on the top of the mountain which, in its extreme formal purity and absolute respect for the environment, will be able to communicate the spiritual meaning of the Jubilee experienced: it will be the Cross of the Third Millennium!
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74.5 km
Beach
Beach
77.6 km
Manfria Tower
Highlight • Historical Site
These towers, including that of Manfria, in the territory of Terranova, were built starting from 1554, by the viceroy Giovanni Vega, and were dependent on the Deputation of the kingdom. The Sicilian Parliament, in the session held in Palermo on 9 April 1579, approved the financing of the maintenance costs of the towers, as well as the salary of the tower makers, the supply of the necessary weapons and the relative ammunition. On that occasion, the granting of a donation of ten thousand scudi per year was established for this important need and protection of the whole kingdom.
In addition to these towers (thirty-seven in all, dependent on the Deputation of the kingdom), others were built by the Senates of the various cities. On the coast of Terranova, the tower of Manfria was erected near the Piano della Fiera, where in past centuries there was a famous city, called by historians Ancira, a very ancient colony of Southern Eraclea (Gela). It has an essential and volumetrically regular architecture and stands out from a square plan, on a parallelepiped base that serves as a graft to a truncated pyramid section, dominated by a closed volume with a gabled roof. Two diagonal cantilever views allowed the tower keepers to lean beyond the walls of the building to better patrol the sea and make signals.
The tower of Manfria, also called of Ossuna, from the name of the viceroy Pietro Giron, duke of Ossuna, stands on a hillock on the high coast, not far from the sea.
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86.7 km
End point
Parking
Way Types & Surfaces
Way Types
42.9 km
15.6 km
13.1 km
7.92 km
5.45 km
1.25 km
572 m
Surfaces
38.8 km
18.6 km
18.4 km
10.4 km
495 m
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Highest point (320 m)
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