This author has to confess that she opened Google Maps to find the geographical coordinates of the Sultanate of Oman (but this is one of the great gifts of the Universal Exposition: getting to know places never heard of previously). Among the Expo pavilions, that of [Oman](http://www.expo2015.org/en/participants/countries/oman-) is one of the most recognizable: an exotic oasis transported to Milan along with a grand fortified structure, palms and canals. In practical terms, it's a pavilion that looks like the Pirate's Castle at Disneyland (the reason we love it). Robert Venturi would have said: “[Learning from Las Vegas](https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/learning-las-vegas)”. Here times ten. The Sultanate of Oman has been able to bring its traditions to Expo and to transmit the importance that water assumes in such a harsh arid land, and how this can be exploited to the full through the use of ingenious canalization. In this way, agriculture becomes possible thanks to aflaj (this is the name of the irrigation systems), that allow distribution of water throughout the land by exploiting gravity and differences in level. We recommend a break in the open space at the back of the pavilion to have a typical drink based on lemon sitting comfortably on one of the pouffes decorated with exotic patterns. Close your eyes, give yourself up to the sensation of being in another place generated by the overlapping of different languages interwoven with one another. In short, a pavilion we loved!