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- Description: According to a contemporary article, Mihaylo Milavanovitsch from Belgrade undertook in 1899 a long walking journey across Europe. Departing on 5 April, he had already covered about 50,000 km (31,100 miles), passing through Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trieste, Ragusa, Salonica, Bucharest, Athens, Constantinople, Kiev, Smolensk, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Brussels, Paris, Le Havre, London, Lisbon, Madrid, Marseilles, Nice, Turin, Milan, Como, and Lugano. At his stop in Ticino, he still had around 2,000 km (1,240 miles) to complete his itinerary back to Belgrade via Switzerland, Germany, and Austria. Described as a 24-year-old young man, robust and with “the face of an apostle,” he spoke German in addition to his native language. The stated purpose of the journey was education; he carried a small notebook in which local newspapers recorded each arrival with dates and official stamps, thus gathering signatures in many European languages
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Serbia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Europe, Europa
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Gazzetta Ticinese, April 6, 1901.
Un globe-trotter - Stamane ebbimo il piacere di ricevere la visita del celebre globe-trotter Mihaylo Milavanovitsch di Belgrado, che sta compiendo una colossale gita in Europa.
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- Description: Unknown individual who between 1905 and 1906 traveled around the world with a shoulder bag inscribed 'Walking Around The World'
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- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Walking Around The World
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- Description: World tour of two globetrotters in 5 years
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Die Reise um die Welt in 5 Jahre
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- Description: French globetrotter who claimed to be undertaking a world tour accompanied by his dog. According to research by the Orkney Archive (2025), Charles Millot left Paris on 22 April 1901, aged 20, after betting with friends that he could walk around the world in six years without money, funding himself by selling illustrated postcards bearing his portrait. Between 1902 and 1903 he travelled across Europe - from Italy to Germany, Belgium, England and Ireland - finally reaching Scotland and the Orkney Islands, where he was photographed with his dog “Dundee". At each stage he visited newspaper offices and police stations to register his progress and have his consular papers stamped. British newspapers described him as a tireless, multilingual self-promoter known as “the French globe-trotter”
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: France, Francia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://orkneyarchive.blogspot.com/2025/07/charles-millot-world-traveller-orkney.html
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Touriste français - 50.800 kilomètres à pieds
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- Description: World tour of two unnamed globetrotters
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: -
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Die Reise um die Welt
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- Description: Mattia Miraglio embarked on a solo 50'000 km walk around the world. He set off on April 19, 2014, from Savigliano, in Piedmont
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- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Italy, Italia, Italie
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Internet: https://mattiamiraglio.it
- Additional references-Riferimenti complementari-Références complémentaires: Miraglio Mattia, A passo d'uomo: Giro del mondo a piedi, L'Artistica Editrice, 2017.
Il 13 settembre 2013, sul balcone di casa mia, ho deciso di fumare l'ultima sigaretta, quella del “condannato a vita” e partire per il giro del mondo.
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- Description: Two anonymous globetrotters with a cart and a model of a Zeppelin airship
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- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
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- Description: Michael Mitchell set off from Cape York on May 5, 2008, to undertake the journey known as the 'Great Australian Cancer Bush Walk'. The purpose is to raise funds for cancer research
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
- Nationality-Nazionalità-Nationalité: Australia
- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Australia
- Internet: https://www.hphpcentral.com/article/bushwalk-for-cancer/
Cancer Council supporter walks more than 6,000km to raise funds. Melbourne teacher Michael Mitchell is a man who has really gone out of his way to help fight cancer - in fact, he's gone thousands of kilometres out of his way.
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- Description: Anonymous globetrotter engaged in a five-year world tour
- Alias-Pseudonimo-Pseudonyme: -
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- Birth/death-Nascita/morte-Naissance/mort: -
- Means of transport-Mezzo di trasporto-Moyen de transport: On foot, A piedi, A pied
- Geographical description-Riferimento geografico-Référence géographique: Around the World, Giro del mondo, Tour du monde
- Inscriptions-Iscrizioni-Inscriptions: Tour du monde en 5 ans - La recette de ces cartes est employée pour combler les frais. Reis om de wereld in 5 jaar. Around the world within 5 years