Listening to the nights of Fez a fragmentary narrative. – In how many ways can one listen to a city – or rather the city – that excludes the noise of traffic while preserving the ancestral channelling and sonic configurations of its alleys and of materials belonging to a time discreet yet not immobile? The soundscape of the medina of Fez emerges not only as a visual space, but as a stratified acoustic landscape, oscillating between public, discreet, and sheltered spaces on the one hand, and private, reverberant, and communal ones on the other. The calls to prayer from the minarets, the flight of storks, and both human and non-human voices contribute to the construction of a sonic geography that defines urban spatiality. Architecture itself functions as an acoustic device that amplifies, attenuates, or trans-forms sounds, making Fez one of the most significant “cities of sound” in the world. Nighttime, in particular, discloses the sonic intimacy of the me-dina, transforming it into a natural conservatory of phonetic effects—an intangible heritage belonging not only to history, but also to the daily practices and sensory perceptions of its inhabitants

Dante’s itinerarium: geographies for knowledge of the elsewhere. – The itinerary traveled by Dante to the three reigns of the afterlife and narrated in the Divine Commedia is emblematic of a type of knowledge journey that places physical and metaphysical realities on the same stage and considers the cultural identity of the narrating self and the geographical characteristics of the elsewhere voyaged by the traveler-narrator. This paper aims to offer, from a geographical perspective, an insight into the mean-ing of travel, considering not only the material geographic reality, but also the perceptual and symbolic dimension that is given to spatiality by persons and communities that identify with a specific culture.

New spatialities at the time of Covid-19: the case of Genoa. – The Covid-19 epidemic has had a significant impact on Liguria’s and Genoa’s population in terms of infections rate and associated fatalities, both due to the links with other regions of Northern Italy and the old population. Following national lockdown measurements, the population had to face dramatic changes in habits and everyday life. The paper looks at the impact that the lockdown measurements had on spatiality and everyday life in Genoa’s neighbourhoods. A survey has been carried out among a representa-tive sample of Genoa’s population. The results are analysed also in terms of their spatial distribution, showing the different impact that the lockdown measurements had in the city’s neighbourhoods.