[citation needed] In the lower left, in full sunlight, but only represented by a dark silhouette, a young girl walks up the street spinning a hoop.
In particular, de Chirico was influenced by the architecture of Turin and Florence, whose "metaphysical character" he perceived due to their spatial arrangement.
The arcades are likely to hide secrets; the strong contrasts between shadows and light underline the enigmatic absence of human beings, as if trapped in narrow, inaccessible places.
According to James T. Soby, he may have been influenced by a girl depicted in Georges Seurat's painting A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1886).
The arcades of the building on the left are smaller, while the shadow cast by the invisible figure has no hands, the wagon has no wheels, and luggage is seen scattered around.