"Cities are a collection of many things: of memories, of desires, of signs of a language; cities are places of exchange, […] but these exchanges are not only exchanges of goods, they are exchanges of words, desires, memories." Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino
The city of love is a place of dreams, lives of its essence and its absence, of its reality and its opposite. "Cities as dreams are built of desires and fears", the City of Love is the place of encounter of the purest form of love, as may be the place of its loss.
Like an island, the City of Love stands on a clear sky of clouds, it becomes a place as a not-place, a paradise that can only be reached through an odyssey, a mirage in the ...