{"id":9531,"date":"2010-04-09T04:48:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/journey-ancient-2000km-route-from-rome-to-istanbul-2\/"},"modified":"2010-04-09T04:48:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-09T04:48:00","slug":"journey-ancient-2000km-route-from-rome-to-istanbul-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2010\/04\/journey-ancient-2000km-route-from-rome-to-istanbul-2\/","title":{"rendered":"JOURNEY ANCIENT 2000KM ROUTE FROM ROME TO ISTANBUL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S76xtaDMXKI\/AAAAAAAAJfM\/10buvz-7KTk\/s1600\/Italy+remains+of+Via+Egnatia+road+today-733088.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S76xtaDMXKI\/AAAAAAAAJfM\/10buvz-7KTk\/s320\/Italy+remains+of+Via+Egnatia+road+today-733088.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S76xt2otruI\/AAAAAAAAJfU\/AWoySOxUjwA\/s1600\/Greece+Kavala-735166.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/_OY-0d2rKv_Q\/S76xt2otruI\/AAAAAAAAJfU\/AWoySOxUjwA\/s320\/Greece+Kavala-735166.JPG\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>FAR Horizons has a unique coach and ferry tour you won&#8217;t find on the shelves of any travel agency \u2013 a 2000km journey from Rome to Istanbul following an\u00a0\u00a0 historic route travelled as far back as the 3rd century BC by soldiers, crusaders, preachers, bandits, merchants, peasants\u2026 and tax-collectors.<\/p>\n<p>The 22-day fully-escorted tour departs for Rome on March 31 2011, and travels through Italy, Albania, Macedonia, Greece and Turkey to Istanbul \u2013 known to the early Romans as Constantinople \u2013 along a path created by the Romans to join the western and eastern parts of their bourgeoning empire.<\/p>\n<p>Just 16 guests on this small-group tour will find themselves amid remnants of the original stone-paved dual-carriageway road, tombs and catacombs from Roman and early Christian days, medieval hilltop towns, Albania&#8217;s Skanderbeg Castle and Macedonia&#8217;s ruins of Heraclea \u2013 founded by Philip II, the father of Alexander the Great, and Alexander&#8217;s own birthplace in Pella.<\/p>\n<p>Other discoveries will include historic staging posts, mosques, a Byzantine fortress, and Edirne \u2013 formerly Adrianopolis, the last capital of the Ottomans.<\/p>\n<p>In Istanbul there&#8217;s a visit to the Hippodrome, Blue Mosque, St Sophia Museum, Topkapi Palace, the vast bazaar, and a boat ride on the Bosphorus.<\/p>\n<p>Price starts from $17,950pp twin-share including return air and taxes from Sydney, Melbourne or Perth, all meals, a Far Horizons escort throughout, local guides, and entry fees.<\/p>\n<p>For a detailed itinerary phone 1800 083 141 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.farhorizons.com.au\/\">www.farhorizons.com.au<\/a><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAR Horizons has a unique coach and ferry tour you won&#8217;t find on the shelves of any travel agency \u2013 a 2000km journey from Rome to Istanbul following an\u00a0\u00a0 historic route travelled as far back as the 3rd century BC by soldiers, crusaders, preachers, bandits, merchants, peasants\u2026 and tax-collectors. The 22-day fully-escorted tour departs for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9531"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9531\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}