Autogrill is truly surprising. It has been, as I have previously written (G. Fabris 2004) one of the most expressive magnetic locations in the modern era, and yet it also has all the credentialsfor an entry into the new era – the era of the postmodern, the era toward which we aremoving, despite the fact that this era is characterized by a distinct new sense of distance, a sharp break with everything that we are leaving behind us.