Portus 35 – June 2018
LIGHTHOUSE index

Puntarenas: re-thinking the port city
For more than a decade, I have dedicated myself to the study of port cities and, in these years I have made done short, medium and long stays in several of these cities. Each experience has been different; either by ...

La trascendencia del acuerdo del Mercosur y la Union Europea
Desde sus orígenes el principal objetivo del Mercosur y de la Unión Europea ha sido el de propiciar un espacio común que gestione el crecimiento y la creación de oportunidades comerciales y de inversiones a través de la competitividad asociada ...

The Open Sea as the Last Best Escape: Yachts and the freedom of the ocean
Seascapes In the summer, the Amalfi Coast offers gorgeous views of dangerously steep roads, narrow streets with sharp switchbacks, and ancient villages precariously hung on steep slopes looking over a gorgeous blue sea sprinkled with ferries, majestic cruise ships, and ...

Venice taverns
They lay there, stored on the highest memory shelves, those reachable only with a ladder. Hidden behind thousands of boxes filled in with objects piled up throughout generations and fast fleeting like a trend. Today we are perhaps a little ...

The Ships Pavilion at the Naval Historical Museum, Venice
The Arsenal of Venice, the beating heart of the economy of the Serenissima Republic and "officina de e maravegie" (“workshop of wander”) known throughout Europe for its modern ability to build and arm the Venetian fleet, is still today a ...

The Adriatic, sea of intimacy
The Adriatic, an 'intimate' sea, stretched between two long lines of coastline and open to different peoples and cultures. How many stories have crossed and overlapped over the centuries in its waters? how many men and women have looked at ...