The exhibition seeks to represent all the sections and themes provided by the namesake Lincean conference (October 23-25, 2024), with detailed maps of Marco Polo's journeys, images of the cities ...

Information from the Travels was useful in improving maps of East Asia, which fed trade relations. Marco Polo’s work also ... in that feverish period of exploration. In 1557 the rulers of ...

Conventional wisdom that the Americas were discovered by Christopher Columbus has been cast into doubt by centuries-old maps and documents suggesting that Marco Polo got there first. According to ...

Filled with wonders, Marco Polo's tales are the first ... Istanbul and finally Venice (see animated map below). When they reached home, Polo was in his 40s. According to the legend, when they ...