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Season 1 Episode
- Season 1 Italy: Venice
- Season 1 Turkey: Bosphorus
- Season 1 Turkey: Anatolia, The Caravans of Asia Minor
- Season 1 Iran: Tabriz, Capital of Merchants
- Season 1 Iran: Assassins, Emperors and Ma
- Season 1 Iran: Kashan and the Zoroastrian Fire Temple of Yazd
- Season 1 Uzbekistan: Bukhara
- Season 1 Uzbekistan: Samarkand
- Season 1 Uzbekistan: Tachkent
- Season 1 Kyrgystan
- Season 1 China: Kashgar
- Season 1 China: Gobi
- Season 1 China: Dunhuang
- Season 1 China: Lanzhou
- Season 1 China: Xian
The Silk Road - Season 1 Episode 1 Italy: Venice
0.00 30 minutes Our adventurer begins his journey in Venice, just like Marco Polo, the most famous voyager to have proceeded down this ancient route.
The many cultural influences are immediately obvious: The architecture and the mosaics of St Mark’s Basilica reveal the links that connect this city with the distant lands of Asia; the textile maker Alberto Bevilacqua recounts the history of the silk trade, while a restaurant owner passionate about gastronomy explains the varied origins of Venetian cuisine.
Alfred then shows us a little-known treasure: the Armenian monastery’s library. It is packed with manuscripts in all languages, brought there through the Silk Road.
