History assigns a major role to the many cultural exchanges between Portugal and Italy, and identifies FERNANDO TÁVORA as a Portuguese master able to build a school of thought, important for his generation and the ones close to him, but also for the generation of contemporary architects. From here, a group of professors and students of the Mantova Campus of Politecnico di Milano starts a research on the traces of Távora, as an architect, traveller and professor. This research develops: a DIDACTIC PROJECT, continuous with the educational actions already undertaken with the interprets of the Portuguese contemporary architecture who have been his pupils and collaborators—Álvaro Siza, Eduardo Souto de Moura, João Mendes Ribeiro, Rui Lobo; an INVESTIGATION, on living and drawing the public, collective, domestic and open space, and on the preservation of the historical space; a JOURNEY to Portugal, moving from East to West, unlike Távora’s European journey, to get to know architecture through its direct experience; the REDRAWING, activator of the critic process of learning; the CONSTRUCTION through the models; an EXHIBITION and a BOOK, that collect and communicate the work’s results, exposing the traces of reciprocity, and locate mutual references for the contemporary project, in Italy from Portugal.