Forwarded from Venice Local Guide
🗺 Mappa Mundi (completed in 1459).
In this year dedicated to Marco Polo (700th anniversary from his passing away here in Venice), read this amazing BBC article on the story of Fra' Mauro, a 15th century local monk who manually designed the greatest and most accurate World Map of the Middle Age (of course Americas were still missing)...
This astonishing masterpiece was only based on travel accounts and stories he read (mainly from #MarcoPolo and #PietroQuerini) and heard (from contemporary Venetian merchants and explorers), because #FraMauro never left in his lifetime his monastery on San Michele island, Venice ❤️🔥
Today you can visit this wonder in the Biblioteca Marciana in #SanMarco Square.
#MappaMundi
#VeniceHistory #VeniceArt
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240214-mappa-mundi-the-greatest-medieval-map-in-the-world
In this year dedicated to Marco Polo (700th anniversary from his passing away here in Venice), read this amazing BBC article on the story of Fra' Mauro, a 15th century local monk who manually designed the greatest and most accurate World Map of the Middle Age (of course Americas were still missing)...
This astonishing masterpiece was only based on travel accounts and stories he read (mainly from #MarcoPolo and #PietroQuerini) and heard (from contemporary Venetian merchants and explorers), because #FraMauro never left in his lifetime his monastery on San Michele island, Venice ❤️🔥
Today you can visit this wonder in the Biblioteca Marciana in #SanMarco Square.
#MappaMundi
#VeniceHistory #VeniceArt
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20240214-mappa-mundi-the-greatest-medieval-map-in-the-world
Bbc
Mappa Mundi: The greatest medieval map in the world
From a small island in the Venetian lagoon, a 15th-Century monk somehow designed an astonishingly accurate planisphere of the world.