Volunteers sail a replica of a Roman ferry across the Danube to Budapest
A replica of the Roman-era ship that once sailed from Germany to the Danube Delta on the Black Sea will sail through Hungary this week and stop in the Hungarian capital, Budapest.
Danuvia Alagris is staffed by volunteers dressed in Roman tunics and the expedition is part of an EU-funded project to raise awareness of the region’s Roman past.
Based on the remains of Roman shipwrecks discovered in the German city of Mainz, the Friedrich-Alexander University made a fourth-century Roman Danube boat out of oak.
“Living Danube Limes” is a transnational project working together with 10 countries along the Danube – the frontier of the Roman Empire – which takes its name from the Latin word border, and is centered on a new common cultural bond. and Southeast Europe.
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