Portrait of Seume

Strolling to Syracuse

In 1802 Johann Gottfried Seume walked 3,600 miles from Grimma (near Leipzig) in Germany to Syracuse in Sicily.
He then turned around, walked home and wrote a book - Spaziergang nach Syrakus - about his adventures.
This website is about my attempt to follow in his footsteps.

"He who walks sees, on average, more—anthropologically and cosmically—than he who rides."

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