Europe’s ‘First Travel Guide’ Stolen
Modern technology didn’t prevent the theft of a priceless 12th-century manuscript from a Spanish cathedral. The Codex Calixtinus—known as “Europe’s oldest travel guide” because it contained a guide to walking routes for pilgrims—is believed to have been stolen by professional thieves from an safe in the archives of…
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Europe’s ‘First Travel Guide’ Stolen
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