2x1 - Il grande viaggio di Marco Polo

October 5, 1999

In this episode we will retrace Marco Polo's journey, the journey he recounted in his famous book Il Milione. 15 thousand kilometers from Venice to Beijing, crossing deserts, steppes and very high mountains and back. We will understand what it meant to travel at that time in difficult territories, without roads, without the possibility of aid and resources, crossing much of the Middle East, crossing the Himalayas, to finally arrive in China.

2x3 - Leonardo Da Vinci: ritratto di un genio (seconda parte)

January 4, 2000

2x4 - Cristoforo Colombo. Storia di un incredibile viaggio

March 3, 2000

In this episode we will follow step by step a truly extraordinary story: that of Christopher Columbus. A man who had an idea that was considered crazy at the time and made it happen. That is, reaching the East by passing through the West, crossing an immense and unknown ocean.