site.btaFirst Circumnavigation of Earth Highlighted at Sofia Exhibition
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First Circumnavigation of Earth
Highlighted at Sofia
Exhibition
Sofia, February 8 (BTA) - Deputy Foreign Minister Irena Dimitrova and Spanish Ambassador to Bulgaria Alejandro Polanco Mata opened a multimedia exhibition called "The Longest Journey", highlighting the first circumnavigation of the globe five centuries ago, the Foreign Ministry's State Institute for Culture said on Tuesday. The show at The Mission Gallery in Sofia continues until February 25.
It aims to popularize the first circumnavigation of the Earth as a key journey in world history and to pay tribute to the research spirit of man and his search for knowledge and the unknown. The multimedia exhibition is conceived as a concept map of the first circumnavigation.
A long-awaited journey of mankind in the unexplored side of the Earth to the mythical Orient and the Spice Islands began 500 years ago in Seville, Spain. This voyage, started by Fernando Magellan in 1519, would prove the longest in an era: the first circumnavigation of the world, completed in 1522 by Juan Sebastian Elcano and the crew of the ship Victoria.
On August 10, 1519, two hundred and thirty-nine men left Seville on five ships. They crossed three oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian - a long and impossible journey in which the crew battled famine, disease and riots. Three years later, 18 men returned on a ship led by Juan Sebastian Elcano. Two previous expeditions were unsuccessful - neither Columbus reached India nor Magellan arrived at the Moluccas. Although Magellan played a very important role as a cartographer and organizer of the expedition, Elcano has the credit of the sailor who achieved it. After Magellan's death, Elcano took command of the fleet and carried out the mission, commissioned and funded by the Spanish crown, travelling the world west and returning to Seville.
The exhibition content is developed along a timeline which tells the most important events and feats from the first circumnavigation of the Еarth. Fifteen panels combine attractive images and graphics with short messages. Seven of the panels have a QR code that provides visitors with additional multimedia information with audiovisual materials that evoke the sensations of this historic journey. They can be accessed from any digital device. The exhibition is accompanied by a short documentary that brings together all these videos and transports us to the world of travel and knowledge. ZH/VE
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VE1805ES.127
127 CULTURE - EXHIBITION - SPAIN
First Circumnavigation of Earth
Highlighted at Sofia
Exhibition
Sofia, February 8 (BTA) - Deputy Foreign Minister Irena Dimitrova and Spanish Ambassador to Bulgaria Alejandro Polanco Mata opened a multimedia exhibition called "The Longest Journey", highlighting the first circumnavigation of the globe five centuries ago, the Foreign Ministry's State Institute for Culture said on Tuesday. The show at The Mission Gallery in Sofia continues until February 25.
It aims to popularize the first circumnavigation of the Earth as a key journey in world history and to pay tribute to the research spirit of man and his search for knowledge and the unknown. The multimedia exhibition is conceived as a concept map of the first circumnavigation.
A long-awaited journey of mankind in the unexplored side of the Earth to the mythical Orient and the Spice Islands began 500 years ago in Seville, Spain. This voyage, started by Fernando Magellan in 1519, would prove the longest in an era: the first circumnavigation of the world, completed in 1522 by Juan Sebastian Elcano and the crew of the ship Victoria.
On August 10, 1519, two hundred and thirty-nine men left Seville on five ships. They crossed three oceans - the Atlantic, the Pacific and the Indian - a long and impossible journey in which the crew battled famine, disease and riots. Three years later, 18 men returned on a ship led by Juan Sebastian Elcano. Two previous expeditions were unsuccessful - neither Columbus reached India nor Magellan arrived at the Moluccas. Although Magellan played a very important role as a cartographer and organizer of the expedition, Elcano has the credit of the sailor who achieved it. After Magellan's death, Elcano took command of the fleet and carried out the mission, commissioned and funded by the Spanish crown, travelling the world west and returning to Seville.
The exhibition content is developed along a timeline which tells the most important events and feats from the first circumnavigation of the Еarth. Fifteen panels combine attractive images and graphics with short messages. Seven of the panels have a QR code that provides visitors with additional multimedia information with audiovisual materials that evoke the sensations of this historic journey. They can be accessed from any digital device. The exhibition is accompanied by a short documentary that brings together all these videos and transports us to the world of travel and knowledge. ZH/VE
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