Tracing Marco Polo's footsteps along the Silk Road
Venetian explorer, merchant, and writer Marco Polo died 700 years ago, in the year 1324. In his travels, which started at the age of 17 and lasted over 20 years, he touched upon numerous cities like Acre, Trebizond, Baghdad, Tabriz, Hormuz, Samarkand, Kashgar, Beijing, and Xanadu. And upon his return, he did something no other European traveller had ever done before. He wrote it down, creating the first thorough account of China and the Silk Road for Europeans, who had never heard or even imagined it in such detail before.
Video written and narrated by Anna Bressanin and animated by Pomona Pictures
