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The Tourist City, the Dream and the Reversal of Time

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Let us take, not very imaginatively perhaps, Porto Cervo as an emblem of the “tourist city” and remark to begin with on the way this place presents and depicts itself on the Portocervo.net site. With the full title “Porto Cervo and Costa Smeralda. All the information on the most famous holiday resort in the world … Holidays-Travels-Dreams-Luxury-Charter of Sardinia-Vip Services”

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Tagliagambe, S. (2009). The Tourist City, the Dream and the Reversal of Time. In: Maciocco, G., Serreli, S. (eds) Enhancing the City. Urban and Landscape Perspectives, vol 6. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-2419-0_5

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