Marco Polo and The Invisible Cities
The ramblings of an explorer or a fake?
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7 min readDec 14, 2022
Born in 1254 Venice, as a child, he once imagined himself as a beloved courtier and conqueror of new worlds. He did travel, spending an extensive portion of time in the Middle East, Asia, and along the infamous Silk Road — or did he?
The common story goes that Marco Polo traveled with his merchant father to…
