Hikes through history provide education as well as exercise
By KAREN BRADBURY | Stars and Stripes | Published: April 30, 2021 Despite the pithy wisdom, all roads don’t lead to Rome. While the origins of the expression may speak to the popularity of pilgrimages back in the Middle Ages, Europe is crisscrossed by a number of trails that have nothing to do with journeys undertaken for spiritual reasons. Borders, battles and the caprices of nature are the groundwork upon which these themed trails were conceived. Hadrian’s Wall Path, England Around 122 A.D., the Roman emperor Hadrian ordered the construction of a defensive fortification marking the n...
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