Reportage of a navigation of over 900 miles on a sailing boat from Venice to the Gulf of Patras. A historical-cultural itinerary in search of our origins
Paolo Rumiz is a journalist. He writes for Il Piccolo di Trieste and for La Repubblica and is the author of a long series of books, mainly itineraries of a historical-cultural nature.
So it is too The Route to Lepanto, reportage of a navigation of over 900 miles on a sailing boat from Venice to the Gulf of Patras (Greece), in which travel is little more than a pretext to talk about facts, places and people.
A long “boat-stop” between landing places, bays and taverns of the eastern Adriaticwhich also represents a personal challenge for the author, given that he had not sailed for more than half a day before and that he is not free from seasickness.
But the slow pace of the sails is the only instrument For immerse yourself in time and investigate the deeds of men, in particular those of the Serenissima, who sailed these seas for centuries leaving indelible traces of themselves and generating, from the mixture with other cultures, that archetype of civilization that we today call Europe.
(Roberta Tofful)
