Aglaura …is a colorless city, without character…but…at certain hours at certain places …you see something unmistakable, rare perhaps magnificent….

Anastasia, a city with concentric canals watering it and kites flying over it.

Baucis: the slender stilts …lost above the clouds support the city. You climb them with ladders… when days are sunny, a pierced, angular shadow that falls on the foliage.

…suspended in the heavens there exists another Beersheba, where the city’s most elevated …virtues are poised…the terrestrial Beersheba will take it as its model …another Beersheba exists underground, the receptacle of everything base and unworthy

Despina…displays one face to the traveler arriving overland and a different one to him who arrives by sea…the camel-driver thinks of it as a vessel that will take him away from the desert…the sailor discerns the form of a camel’s withers….

Diomira is a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods…a crystal theater, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower…

Dorothea: …four aluminium towers rise from its walls flanking seven gates with spring operated drawbridges that span the moat whose water feeds four green canals which cross the city, dividing it into nine quarters…

In Ersilia, to establish the relationships that sustain the city’s life the inhabitants stretch from the corners of the houses, white or black or grey or black and white …when the strings become so numerous…the inhabitants leave

In Esmeralda, city of water, a network of canals and a network of streets span and intersect each other. To go from one place to another you have always the choice between land and boat…the shortest distance between two points …is not a straight line but a zigzag…

In Eudoxia, which spreads both upwards and down, with winding alleys, steps, dead ends, hovels a carpet is preserved in which you can observe the city’s true form.

Eutropia: the traveler sees not one city but many, of equal size scattered over a vast rolling plateau …only one is inhabited at a time …and this process is carried out in rotation

In the centre of Fedora …stands a meal building with a crystal globe in every room. Looking into each globe, you see a blue city, the model of a different Fedora

Irene is the city visible when you lean out from the plateau at the hour when the lights come on …

Maurilia, some old postcards…show it as it used to be: the same identical square with aa hen in the place of the bus station, a bandstand in the place of the overpass, two young ladies with white parasols…

Moriana …it has no thickness, it consists only of a face and an obverse, like a sheet of paper, with a figure on either side, which can neither be separated nor look at each other.

Octavia the spider-web city …There is a precipice between two steep mountains: the city is over the void, bound to the two crests with ropes …Below there is nothing for hundreds and hundreds of feet….

Following the astronomers’ calculations precisely, Perinthia was constructed…

Pyrrha…was a fortified city on the slopes of a bay…with high windows and towers, enclosed like a goblet with a central square deep as a well, with a well in its centre.

The city of Sofronia is made up of two half cities. In one there is the great roller-coaster…the carousel …the death-ride with crouching motor-cyclists. The other half-city is of stone and marble …with the bank, the factories, the palaces. One is temporary the other is permanent…

I…am returning from Zirma: my memory includes dirigibles flying in all direction, at window level

I…am returning from Zirma: my memory includes dirigibles flying in all direction, at window level

I…am returning from Zirma: my memory includes dirigibles flying in all direction, at window level

Zobeide, the white city, well exposed to the moon, with streets wound about themselves as in a skein…