Its from "Invisible Cities" by Italo Calvino one of my fav authors. When reading it I felt very inspired and liked this city so much. after finishing it kind of felt proud of myself to pull it off so close to what I imagined and was described in the book. :)
'Leaving there and proceeding for three days toward the east, you reach Diomira, a city with sixty silver domes, bronze statues of all the gods, streets paved with lead, a golden cock that crows each morning on a tower . . .'