Marco Polo's Travels: Route Map & Timeline

Marco Polo: 7 stops from 1271 to 1295, from Venice to Venice.

Route map of Marco Polo's Travels — Border map for 1200. See the world in 1200.

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Route and timeline

#	Year	Place	What happened
1	1271	Venice	Sets out with his father and uncle for the court of the Yuan.
2	1272	Hormuz	Plans to sail east but, wary of the flimsy ships, goes overland.
3	1273	Kashgar	Crosses the Pamirs into the Tarim Basin.
4	1275	Shangdu	Meets Kublai Khan at his summer capital.
5	1280	Hangzhou	Praises Kinsay (Hangzhou) as the finest and most splendid city in the world.
6	1292	Quanzhou	Sails from Zayton escorting the princess Kököchin to the Ilkhanate.
7	1295	Venice	Returns home; later, in a Genoese prison, dictates his Travels.

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Hannibal's March · 218 BC — 183 BC
Caesar's Campaigns · 58 BC — 44 BC
Charlemagne's Empire · 768 — 814
Luther & the Reformation · 1483 — 1546
Mozart's Travels · 1756 — 1791
Napoleon's Campaigns · 1769 — 1815
Harald Hardrada · 1030 — 1066
Peter the Great · 1682 — 1725
Xuanzang's Journey to India · 629 — 645
Genghis Khan's Campaigns · 1206 — 1227
Ibn Battuta's Travels · 1325 — 1354
Zheng He's Voyages · 1405 — 1433
Columbus's Voyages · 1492 — 1504
Captain Cook's Voyages · 1768 — 1779

Last updated 9 November 2026. Sources: border data from historical-basemaps, land and rivers from Natural Earth; texts written for Chronica Maps from standard reference works. How we make the maps.