Travelers and travels – historical-cultural and spiritual forces
Travelers and travels – historical-cultural and spiritual forces

Summary/Abstract: Ever since his appearance, man has been driven by various needs to move beyond his comfort zone, his actions and activities often requiring him to travel around. Thus, he becomes a traveler in search of food, living space, conquest of new territories, curiosity, pilgrimages, pleasure, relaxation, and entertainment. If the testimonies from Antiquity about journeys and travelers are quite brief and sporadic, over time they have multiplied and become valuable historical sources, especially through travel diaries ordescriptions of events, such as armed confrontations and their movement around different areas of the world. Thus, people have obtained information about spaces other than their homelands, about cultures, traditions, customs, ritesand rituals, religions, monuments and works of art, etc. of Others, compared to their own. The individual is excited to travel, to make direct contact with other peoples and communities, with their famous monuments, which he assimilates in a subjective way, psychologizes them and reinvests them with new values, thus bringing his own contribution to the process of heritagization of some specialobjects, outstanding products of human creativity.

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