Baroque-style palace façade in Palermo in ruins by Silva Wischeropp

About "Baroque-style palace façade in Palermo in ruins"

by Silva Wischeropp

About the artwork

This dilapidated, late Baroque palace façade is reminiscent of the splendour of times gone by.
The photo was taken on 15 July 2019 with the NIKON D90 in the Sicilian capital Palermo on the island of Sicily.
The image captivates with its mystical, dilapidated and fairytale charm.
For lovers of lost places and crumbling, fascinating architectural structures, it is a real eye-catcher for the office, study or for hanging in entrance areas. Behind the decaying walls of the old palace lies a long and mysterious history.
Piazza Bologni (or Piazza Bologna) is a square in the Albergheria neighbourhood of Palermo's historic old town. It is located on Corso Vittorio Emanuele between the Norman Palace and the Quattro Canti.
The square was built around 1566. It soon became known as Piazza Bologna, named after the palace of the Bologna family, which was built by Aloisio Bologna, Baron of Montefranco, in 1573. The square has a rectangular shape of around 30 × 80 metres. It extends in a roughly north-south direction (more precisely: north-north-west-south-south-east) and its north-western narrow side abuts Corso Vittorio Emanuele.
It is surrounded by three palaces, Palazzo Alliata di Villafranca, Palazzo Ventimiglia-Riso and Palazzo Ugo. On the south-west side of the square is Palazzo Alliata di Villafranca, which was built on the site of the former Palazzo Bologna after it was destroyed by an earthquake in Palermo in 1751. Next to it, on the south-east side, is Palazzo Ugo, which was commissioned by Vincenzo Ugo in the first half of the 18th century. The left wing of the building was destroyed in the last world war.