Assume the journey would be via the Alps at a time of year when the mountain passes were open.
2007-11-08 05:21:22 · 5 answers · asked by chisquare 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ History
Map Quest says it's ~ 530 miles by today's roads.
Figure average walking 2-3 miles per hour. Probably 2 MPH in those shoes on those roads and carrying personal items.
Walking 8 hours a day would be plenty - so ~ 15 miles per day.
You would have to stop and find food during the day and a place to sleep at night.
I'd guess ~ 35 days - five weeks. Maybe a month if you were in a bit more of a hurry. Weather would be factor of course. The mountain passes in the Alps could also add some extra days even if they are open.
2007-11-08 05:32:49 · answer #1 · answered by Spreedog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
In Summer, considering the conditions, it would take about 25-30 days, riding in caravan, stopping at sundown and continuing at sun up, though the trip would be much, much smoother once you got back onto the old, still intact, Roman roads on the French side of the Alps.
If you were a messenger, stopping to get a fresh horse every 75 kilometres, sleeping for five hours, then you could make it in about 5 to 8 days or so. Once again, the trip would be easier once you got back onto the old Roman roads in France.
In Winter, well, you wouldn't want to go through the Alpine passes during Winter in a caravan. It would be far too much trouble bringing wagons full of supplies up and down the mountain.
A messenger, riding a single horse, stopping every 25 kilometres to get a fresh horse, and sleeping for five hours by a fire, you could make it in probably 8 to 10 days, but only if you got lucky and didn't run into ANY problems at all. With the passes in the Alps vision would be terribly poor, and one might be all most blinded during heavy snowfall.
The Roman roads wouldn't avail you at LEAST until you got some distance between yourself and the Alps, due to snowfall and ice.
2007-11-08 13:37:17 · answer #2 · answered by Kemp the Mad African 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
On foot? Probably about a month.
It's roughly 900 kilometers from Milan to Paris. Average walking speed over uneven ground is about 3 kilometers per hour. So that's 300 hours of walking. If you did about 10 hours per day, it'd take roughly a month.
2007-11-08 13:34:06 · answer #3 · answered by Don Adriano 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It took about 14 days to get from Venice to Lyon about that time, so from there we can extrapolate, say... 16 to 18 days.
2007-11-08 13:33:22 · answer #4 · answered by 2Bs 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Army could travel 20 miles a day.
So I'd say, about a month.
2007-11-08 14:15:35 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋