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[quote=CARLOS,253371]Marco Polo made his travels 13th century. He arrived 1295 back to Venice. Yes, he was Venetian, athough he spent some time in Genoa as a prisoner of war after a sea battle between Venice and Genoa. In fact, Marco Polo wrote his book in prison. Well, he had a "ghost writer", Rustichello da Pisa, who booked up Polo´s stories.  Venice international airport is named after him: Aeroporto di Venezia Marco Polo.

From his time in China, there is much Chinese written documents. None of them mention Marco Polo. His high position as  a friend of Kublai Khan is widely questioned because of that. As well as his part of bringing noodles or other things to Europe for first time. Some has said he was not in China at all, because in his book does not exist for example The Great Wall, chopsticks, daily tea drinking and many other Chinese cultural things.

Because Marco Polo was the one that wrote about those travels, his father, Niccolò and his uncle, Matteo have been almost forgotten. They made a travel to China before, and apparently met Kublai Khan. They returned to China 1271 with Marco, who then was 17 years old.

Leonardo, before this thread I would have believed in Marco Polo´s stories, but after doing some research, I am not so sure any more. Knowledge increases pain, heh.

Carlos[/quote]

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