Portus 31 – June 2016
LIGHTHOUSE index

Barcelona’s Urban Markets
"La cuina d'un país és el seu paisatge posat a la cassola" (“A country's cuisine is its landscape in a pot”) the Catalan Joseph Pla i Casadevall wrote. As for Barcelona, located between the Pirenees and the Mediterranean Sea, being ...

Livorno, the Port Center for a new port-city integration
“Livorno is an example of how integration and cultural contamination could reach levels of excellence and the Port Center is an important tool to establish an ongoing relationship of dialogue between the port and the city". With these words the ...

Chronia in Lisboa
Chronia travels around the earth between time and space. She jumps from north to south, from east to west, from nowhere to everywhere, searching places, people and cultures on the coasts and bays of this world. [as_tejus_mu_carousel id=5] ...

Archipelagos and artificial islands. Manage the present, imagine the future
The particular coastal configuration, the isolation often only apparent, the intertwining of different geographical origin cultures, the unspoiled nature and/or secular urban stratification, the rich historic-architectural heritage, the presence of particular plant and animal species are some aspects that generally ...