en The book is small, the result of numerous trips to the author in the red city and wants to have a journal of his meeting with the life of the city of Madeenah. Corrado Levi, a singular figure in the professor international and Italian architecture at the University of Milan and criticism of contemporary art, wrote in his book, a look with the eye of a strong western architects of their various origins, their thoughts on the encounter of two cultures: Europe and North Africa.