The five-stage journey through archaeological parks presented in this issue offers a fascinating vision of their peculiarities. In addition to the extraordinary landscapes they encountered, the architects traveling to these sites have come across themes and figures that have profoundly influenced the way they think about architecture. Agrigento offers the surprise of a Mediterranean garden of other times contained within the park itself, Selinunte shows how the fall of the gigantic members of the Doric temples becomes a lesson in the anatomy of architecture, the Park of the Aqueducts is revealed to be a demonstration of the decisive role of representation in turning things into monuments and the watery landscape of Butrint finds a makeshift substance in its archaeological remains, while at the end of a trip to Volubilis, in the far-flung reaches of the Roman empire, the subversive aspect of pagan culture with respect to a monotheistic context is uncovered.
