The aim of this work is to research the specific relationship with space as one of the reference points in the analysis of the poetics of the Croatian poet Petar Gudelj from the perspective of spatial turn and representative theorists (Lefebvre, Soja, Foucault, Hoffman, Brković, Grgas). The poet's depiction and reimagining of the space, as a characteristic place of fusion of social, cultural and anthropological influences, will be analyzed on concrete poems. Special emphasis will be placed on the Mediterranean area, which is the intersection of numerous cultures and civilizations in Gudelj's poems. Furthermore, there will be a word about mediterraneanism as a specific discourse of writing about the Mediterranean area. Gudelj's work thematically includes the time span from the very beginnings of civilization, through antique, all the way to modern times, where clear boundaries are blurred, and representative motifs and symbols are intertwined. As Sorel (2013) states, it is a representation of cultural continuity, which in the poet's oeuvre forms a palimpsest pattern of constant rewriting of space. Work also describes integration of elements of oral folk literature into poetic expression as one of the ways of emphasizing the continuity of the culture of the space through the mediation of human action. Relying on the claims of Ivana Brković (2013), it is seen how the poet's description and explanation of space is not only a reproductive but also a performative practice. A one can notice that for the poet, space is not only physical or mental representations, but their duality, a combination of physical space and the mediation of mental representations expressed through symbolic representations.