Sicilian façade in Palermo by Silva Wischeropp

The picture was taken on 18 April 2022 during my Easter trip in the Sicilian capital Palermo.
The largest island in Italy is the sunny island of Sicily. It is surrounded by three seas: the Tyrrhenian Sea in the west, the Ionian Sea in the east and the Mediterranean Sea in the south.
Palermo has spruced itself up! As the capital of Sicily, Palermo was crowned Italian Capital of Culture in 2018 and this status has helped Palermo transform itself. Today, Palermo's old town is a smart pedestrian zone where once there was chaos and traffic. Palermo surprises with great sights, for which you should allow a few days.
The best way to discover Palermo is on foot or with the Hop On Hop Off bus, which promises an exciting round trip through the city and you can get on and off at various stops and thus take in a whole host of sights.
We recommend a tour of the old town, which you can easily do in one day and visit the most important sights in the centre.

The charming house façade with crumbling plaster and washed-out colours has a particularly enchanting flair and is ideal for living and working spaces. The different shades of yellow and orange give the rooms an inviting, warm ambience.

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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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