Sicilian baroque city of Catania by Silva Wischeropp

Catania is a magnificent baroque city
Catania lies in a vast citrus plain on the Ionian Sea, at the foot of Mount Etna. Catania was a colony of the Calcidesi as early as 729 BC and was ruled by various tyrants and peoples, with a period of great splendour that lasted until imperial and Byzantine rule. A terrible eruption of Mount Etna in 1669 severely damaged the city, and the devastating earthquake of 1693 accelerated its progressive decline. The current urban structure dates back to the reconstruction of the city of Catania in the 18th century. Catania boasts magnificent and interesting ruins.

Catania is the second largest city in Sicily, lies at the foot of Mount Etna and offers many views of the active volcano. Catania has a strong personality given its turbulent and painful past, it is an ancient city that was almost rebuilt after the terrible earthquake of 1693. Catania is a late Baroque city in the Val di Noto (south-east Sicily) that bears extraordinary witness to the exuberant genius of late Baroque art and architecture, the last flowering of Baroque art in Europe at its peak. Catania is on the UNESCO World Heritage List.

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Silva Wischeropp was born in the Hanseatic city of Wismar in the former GDR. Today she lives and works in Berlin. As an experienced and passionate travel photographer whose interests span a broad range, she focuses on portraiture, street life, reportage, documentary, travel, tourism, landscape and nature. In addition, she is known for her recordings in the fields of architecture and fashion. Since 2016, her new repertoire includes surreal digital photo collages. For 20 years she has been known in Germany and abroad as a creative photo artist. Her works have been widely published and exhibited. "The photographic image process represents my personal work and creation area. This means dealing with image worlds, politics, human needs and sensitivities. The camera expands my scope to meet that other reality. Photography makes me happy, creates joy, closes boundaries, opens new doors, widens horizons. The camera teaches me to see, to sharpen the view, to capture moments, to perceive fleeting moments that are not visible to others. I am a creative person, a picture-maker, who draws on herself, does not copy a lot and develops her own imagery. So I move between the poles, reach different fixed points, look behind the scenes. Out of the thousandfold existing I manage to bring out something unique, unique moments of the picture."

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