{"id":23430,"date":"2024-02-08T01:28:50","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T06:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/traveling-cook.com\/?page_id=23430"},"modified":"2024-02-10T14:40:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-10T19:40:21","slug":"history-of-tourism-in-middle-ages-medieval-travel","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/traveling-cook.com\/history-travel\/history-of-tourism-in-middle-ages-medieval-travel\/","title":{"rendered":"History of Tourism in Middle Ages – Medieval Travel"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n
Roman Empire\u00a0<\/a> \u00a0–\u00a0 Rome<\/a>\u00a0 –\u00a0 Saint James<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n History of Medieval Tourism – How did you travel in the Middle Ages?:<\/strong>The fall of the Roman Empire<\/strong> plunged the European continent into a period of great confusion and disorder. For a time there was also an almost permanent state of war between the barbarian chiefs, who had invaded the ancient Roman empire. This contributed to the weakening of all forms of centralized government power.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Tourism in the Medieval P<\/strong>eriod, however:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n The transition from ancient to medieval culture<\/a><\/strong> during the High Middle Ages,<\/strong> took place gradually and almost imperceptibly. Roman economy, social organization and art inevitably declined. One of its consequences was the transfer of the population to rural areas.<\/span> Prevalence of agriculture and large properties: that was the main characteristic during the high middle ages<\/a>. Only land ownership conferred wealth and power..<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n The practice of tourism<\/a> was abandoned. Most hedonistic customs too. There were transfers to hot springs that continued to explode. These were installed in abbeys or monasteries managed by religious orders that kept the facilities in good conditions of use.<\/span> \u00a0 One of the characteristics of the High Middle Ages was the sedentary nature of the population.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n There was no tourism in the Middle Ages as in Roman times<\/a><\/strong>. But, the Church had a transcendent role in all aspects of daily life. His action transcended the spiritual to also cover the social, the cultural and even public affairs.<\/span> The Greek ideal of leisure<\/strong><\/a> moved to the monasteries, for for many the essence of the early Christian religion<\/strong> was to live to get closer to God. It Was considered sin the accumulation of wealth or the same work to obtain them.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Medieval Travel: When the political and social situation consolidated, a powerful social group formed by Lords appeared. This was a higher level of society, which adopted an attitude of exhibitionist leisure. As in the middle ages<\/strong> there was no printing press, most people did not receive education. The few who had the opportunity and the desire to learn had to travel to have new knowledge.<\/span> History of Tourism in Medieval Times:<\/strong> The leisure exhibition showed his release from the need to work. The leisure of the Lords<\/strong> was the expression of their opposition to servile work, and by putting it in evidence as many times as possible they reaffirmed their membership in the aristocratic class.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Popular leisure, meanwhile, while present, was not free. It was the activity of the days of rest and celebration. Usually religious and related to the patron saint of the place or the great religious festivities<\/strong>. The leisure of the lower classes was organized and controlled by power, that is, the Lord and the Church.<\/a><\/span><\/p>\r\n \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 The Religious Tourism in Midlle Ages<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\r\n It is an old church and a pilgrim hospital on the Via Francigena, originally belonging to the Knights Templar<\/a>. It served as accommodation and protection for the pilgrims.<\/span> The Castle of the Magione (Castello della Magione<\/strong>) located in Poggibonsi, Siena, Italy,<\/a> is a monumental complex from the Middle Ages belonged to the Knights Templar. It has also been preserved to this day. The castle is also known by the name of magione di San Giovanni al Ponte, or spedale di san Giovanni in Jerusalem alla Magione.<\/span> The Castle is located on the right bank of the Staggia river, opposite the old Bonizio bridge, about 3 kilometers from the city center of Poggibonsi.<\/span> This set of buildings is from the early 12th century and originally belonged to the Knights Templar<\/em>. When the order was suppressed in 1312, it passed to the Hospitaller Knights<\/strong>, until 1752.<\/span><\/p>\r\n At the end of the 18th century the hospital was given in usufruct to the Order of Malta<\/strong>. With the suppression of the Order of Malta (1799) the property remained in the hands of the Corsini family. In 1866 the Corsini family sold the church and other buildings, keeping the usufruct. The church was closed in 1822.<\/span> In 1979 the complex was bought by Count Marcello Alberto Cristofani, who gave as patrimony and as Headquarters of the Magisterium, the Temple Militia<\/strong> – Order of the Poor Knights of Christ, which he founded. So you have to bring the restoration project, which brought the complex back to its original state.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n One of the main medieval pilgrimage routes led to Rome<\/a><\/strong>. The ultimate goal of the pilgrims was to reach the basilica of St. Peter and visit the graves of St. Peter and St. Paul.<\/strong> Rome had numerous churches with more relics of saints and martyrs of antiquity. The pilgrims visited almost all of them. The main access route to Rome was the Via Francigena<\/strong> that started from Canterbury and crossed from northwest to southeast France<\/a><\/strong> and Switzerland<\/strong><\/a>, to penetrate Italy<\/strong> <\/a>through the Alps. Part of this journey was made on Ancient Roman Roads<\/a> still existing. Travel in the Middle Ages.<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0<\/p>\r\n This route starts from the visit of the Archbishop of Canterbury<\/strong>, Sigerico el Serio at the end of the 10th century. Many pilgrims read their writings with the description of the stages of this trip.<\/span> The pilgrimage to Rome will decline at the time of the crusades and It will be partly displaced by the pilgrimage to Compostela – Galicia – Spain<\/strong><\/a>. Santiago de Compostela<\/strong> shows himself as a saint very close to the faithful who visit him because of the many miracles he performs in his tomb in Galicia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Only from the year 1300, with the institution of the jubilee for part of Boniface VIII, Rome will once again attract the attention of Pilgrims In the following centuries it will be the main destination and focus of attention of the faithful pilgrims, religious tourism and Medieval Travel<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\r\n The road to Santiago (\u00a0Way of St. James)<\/strong> is to this day a tourist circuit, one of the oldest and busiest in the world, maintains its essence and the feelings of those who come from all over the world to make a pilgrimage.<\/span> Compostela, in chronological order is the last of the great pilgrimage centers to emerge<\/strong>, from the ninth century. And it will become one of the most important pilgrimage centers of medieval Christianity, she was going to venerate the tomb (supposed) of the apostle Santiago.<\/span> \u00a0<\/p>\r\n \u00a0 The pilgrimage to Compostela<\/a> will be motivated not because James came and preached to Spain, but because of the spread, throughout Christianity, of the news of the discovery of the apostle’s grave.\u00a0It turns out that the West, if we except Rome, does not have any other apostolic tomb<\/strong>. It also adds what every sacred place needed to become popular.<\/span><\/p>\r\n The fame that the apostle Santiago acquires as a holy healer explodes religious tourism in the middle ages<\/strong>. Pilgrims are set in motion by stories about the priests of the Saint. Compostela Cathedral in Spain is a new destination in its own right. And compete with Rome.<\/span><\/p>\r\n The Codex Calixtinus<\/strong>, a work of the twelfth century, indicates four routes that cross France<\/a>,<\/strong> become a single way on Spanish soil, to reach Compostela.This place is called Puente la Reina<\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0This route is integrated to other different pilgrimage routes in the road that leads to Compostela and whose destination is Rome, Tours or Jerusalem.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Santiago de Compostela<\/strong> becomes the most famous sanctuaries<\/strong> in the west whose goal is to visit the tomb of the Apostol.<\/strong> This Saint surpasses all other saints for his healing properties, because Santiago, like several centuries before San Martin de Tours, heals everything.<\/span> It even surpasses it in the number of diseases it cures because Santiago is the one who returns the sight to the blind, the ear to the deaf, the voice to the mute, life to the dead. It also heals people of all diseases for the glory and praise of Christ.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n In the early years of the Middle Ages<\/strong> the tomb of St. Martin in the\u00a0<\/strong>Cathedral<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>of Tours ( France<\/a>)<\/strong> was within religious pilgrimage and tourism. Especially since the sixth century. He is a saint admired by the Frankish kings of the Merovingian dynasty, which makes him the center of the pilgrimage of the Frankish world. For the people of the early medieval times no other Saint had a power similar to Saint Martin. Is the friend of God and as collected by Codex\u00a0 Calixtinus<\/strong><\/a>, in the twelfth century, he has a reputation as a resuscitator<\/strong>, as a curator of leprosy<\/strong>, of the energum, lunatics and the demonized.<\/span><\/p>\r\n In the city of Tours, the people set out to seek Fall of the <\/a>Roman Empire & Medieval Travel<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n
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Goodbye to Roman<\/a>Tourism – Hello Tourism in the Medieval Times<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n
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What was Leisure & Tourism in Medieval Time like?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n
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Traveling in the Middle age. Leisure of the Lords<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\r\n
Popular leisure<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\r\n
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Castle of the Magione on the Via Francigena<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n
Castello della Magione in the 19th century<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\r\n
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What was the Pilgrimage to Rome like in Medieval Times?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n
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Medieval Travel Way of St. James:<\/a> Pilgrimage to Compostela (Spain<\/a>)<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n
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\r\nHistory of Tourism in Middle Ages: The Holy Healer<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n
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How was the Pilgrimage to Tours – France in the Middle Ages?<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\r\n