Travel in the Middle Ages: Why It Was a Death Sentence

Описание: Forget your comfortable 2-hour flight. In the Middle Ages, a trip from Cologne to Rome wasn't a vacation – it was a fight for survival. Welcome to the Via Francigena, the "Road of the Franks," where you didn't pack a suitcase; you wrote your last will and testament.

This documentary by "History Unleashed" takes you back to the year 1300. Walk 1,500 kilometers in the worn-out boots of a pilgrim. Experience the brutal reality of travel: 50 days of pure walking time, sinking ankle-deep in mud, and paying deadly tolls to robber barons on the Rhine.

We face the monster of the journey: The Alps. No tunnels, no guardrails. Just the Great St. Bernard Pass at 2,500 meters, where pilgrims froze to death in summer blizzards. Survive that? Welcome to Italy, where malaria and bandits await.

Discover why you had to sleep head-to-toe with strangers in flea-infested hostels, how money changers cheated you at every city gate, and why Rome was a ruin filled with goats, not glory.

Travel was slow, painful, and dangerous. This is the story of an adventure that could cost you your life – and you still had to walk all the way back.

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