Paolo Rumiz traveled on foot the 600 kilometers of the first of the Roman roads, the Via Appia. He followed in the footsteps of Hannibal, became the cantor of the Po and the Danube.

Rumiz, native of Trieste, attracted new readers by completing a European tour of Benedictine monasteries ( Le Fil sans fin, 2019) “In the East, it was better. More brotherhood, communication, curiosity,” he exclaimed in On the Borders of Europe.