This column will invite you over the forthcoming issues of PORTUS to apprehend port cities in a landscape perspective – something that hasn’t been done so far. Landscape, generally speaking, is a rather unknown and often misunderstood concept. In this ...

The first journey between fiction and reality, film and documentaries, will exemplify the intent of this column. The port cities we “teletransported” to are all located on the Mediterranean Sea (Thessaloniki, Tetouan, Barcelona, Marseilles, Genoa) with two smaller digressions onto ...

The singular behavior of the seafaring community (both sailors and those family members and workers whose livelihood depends on the sea) constitutes a source of identity and a distinction that marks them out from other communities. Taken together, these distinctive ...

New York is probably the city with the most extensive waterfront in the entire world. Its five big boroughs have very long facades on the rivers and internal canals. Manhattan and Staten Island are islands, Brooklyn and Queens are located ...

Alberto Savinio was strolling down the streets of Milan, listening to the heart of one of his dearest cities [1] ; Italo Calvino, wandering about thousands of cities, was looking for their soul, powerful probe of the soul of man ...

Él se fue una tarde con rumbo ignorado en el mismo barco que lo trajo a mí; pero entre mis labios se dejó olvidado un beso de amante que yo le pedí. Errante lo busco por todos los puertos; a ...