La Ruta de la Seda

The ever-evocative history of the Silk Road begins in the remote past and continues for centuries to the present, where it is stronger than ever. Today that road begins to unite countries that aspire to play a leading role on the world stage. It is difficult to predict how all this will transform the East and the West. A road, or rather a network of roads, a bundle of land and sea routes along which men, goods and knowledge have moved over the centuries from the extreme east of Asia to the Mediterranean and Europe. Romantic and recent, the expression "silk road" restores the meaning of a vast world, traversed since ancient times by wars and conflicts, but also animated by the fervor of commercial, cultural and political exchanges. Spices, animals, pottery, cobalt, paper, and of course silk traversed the mountains and plateaus on this path. Alexandria, Changan, Samarkand, Bukhara, Baghdad, Istanbul: these are some of the stages of a millennial journey that reaches our present. A work that contemplates centuries of commercial and cultural relations beginning with the first nomadic peoples who settled in unlimited territories, the dawn of the Chinese Empire, the global revolution due to the great geographical discoveries, colonialism in Asia until focusing on current commercial strategies. of China to redefine the ancient Silk Road.