In this post I will discuss the next part of the Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. The subject here is the hidden city of Olinda and its magnifying panorama.
In general, the city is kind of mysterious place where only its inhabitants can observe its enlarging. With the observing eye, they somehow reveal the roofs, antennas, the skylight, the gardens, the pools, the kiosk in the squares, and so on. However, Olinda is not the only the one that is growing faster. Calvino makes a difference between the concentric circles and tree-trunks, which each year add one more ring. Olinda is struggling to adopt the new infrastructure,however, the city preserves the old architecture such as old walls maintaining their original proportions. On the other hand, in the heart of the city the new Olinda is becoming larger and larger in its reduced dimensions.
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