Venice, Albania and Turkey

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Year: 2018

Season: 1, Episode: 1

Episodes: 4

Plot: Lumley starts a modern journey along (a version of) the Ancient Silk Road from its European destination, the grand dogal port of Venice, where silk and many oriental goods arrived, paid with silver and various European produce. It's also the (disputed) home of the Polo family, whose legendary Marco's (even more disputed) biographical journey kick-started many stories, legends and sometimes surviving presumptions on the East, the the Mongol empire of Kublai Khan which they visited. Next over the Balkans, focusing on surviving tracts of the Roman army road Via Egnatia in Albania, to the immensely rich metropolis Constantinople, now Istanbul, still a key pin in intercontinental trade. Finally trough some of the routes crossing Asia Minor (now Anatolia), visiting the unique cave patrimony of Cappadocia and more authentic pastoral mountain regions, where the herdsmen culture still survives all the way to Georgia.—KGF Vissers

Original Title: Venice, Albania and Turkey

Type: episode

Year: 2018

Genres: Documentary

Cast: Joanna Lumley

Original Air Date: 12 Sep 2018

Rating: 7.9

Votes: 38

Year: 2018

Editor: Otto Burnham

Sound Crew: Will Chapman , Nick Fry

Music Department: Ruby Wasmuth , Tom Wraith

Season: 1

Episode: 1

Number of Episodes: 4

Episode of: Venice, Albania and Turkey