Is Figueira da Foz really special? Or is it us, the people of Figueira, who feel this way? The traveler-writer Gonçalo Cadilhe proposes a look at the city of all his returns from a perspective shaped by decades of travel in so many other cities in the world. Passing through history and geography and also taking in the landscape and the innate characteristics of his contemporaries, Gonçalo Cadilhe invites us to reflect on the privilege of living in Figueira da Foz.