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Considerations on Urban Tourism in Early Middle Age. The maximum crisis period of the town from the Early Middle Age overlaps the Islam invasion (7th century after Christ), whose flashing attack destroys any type of relationship in the Ancient World. For Western Europe, the Mediterranean loses the condition of “Mare Nostrum”, geo-political reality followed by the collapse of the exchange economy, with the urban dissolution, respectively of the town in it. In this dark context, only a single town will mark an evolution of exception – Venice.

KEYWORDS: urban tourism, middle age, Islam invasion, Venice, collapse of the exchange economy