May 23, 1930

Escher sketches Morano as a mountain among mountains.
“A height entirely covered with tightly packed houses, where the weave of the streets can be sensed all the way up to the castle’s peak, an overarching order governing every element. A line of clouds cuts horizontally across the sky; the mountains, too, seem to rise in horizontal layers, with pyramid-shaped peaks…” Excerpt from M.C. Escher in Calabria – Engraved Memories of a Dutch Traveler, by Domenico Mediati and Saverio Pazzano.