In this first-person compilation of his work, Basilico becomes a visionary of twentieth-century architectural reality. From Milan, Madrid and Beirut to Naples, Berlin or Barcelona, he sets out to portray and rebuild the identity of the cities he visits through emblematic or characteristic buildings. Basilico begins a chronological account in which he recalls how photography attracted him in 1963, in the classrooms of the Faculty of Architecture of the Politecnico di Milano, to the point of interrupting his studies to devote himself to the art of portraying the soul of cities. He remembers the influence of Aldo Rossi and his book The Architecture of the City, which determined his beginnings in photography in 1973, and goes through his most outstanding published series, such as Milan, portraits of factories (1978-1980), Bord de Mer, on the transformation of the French landscape in the eighties, and Seaports, a personal project devoted to the ports of southern and northern Europe. One of his most characteristic works is the one made in Beirut in 1991, at the request of the writer Dominique Eddé, together with Robert Frank, Fouad Elkoury, Josef Koudelka, René Burri and Raymond Depardon.