Labyrinths Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
usually a system of narrow corridors designed to confuse those who enter and make finding a correct path difficult
About Labyrinths
Labyrinths have existed sinceAncient Egypt. A "labyrinth" (unlike a generic "maze") is unicursal, there being but one path to centre, twisting round and wrapping in on itself, but without side passages or dead ends. During the Medieval period, the unicursal labyrinth, sometimes took on Christian meanings, the winding path around the four points of a cross (differing from a classical labyrinth of earlier periods.), being symbolic of a pilgrims journey, both in the temporal and spiritual worlds. In the 16th century, hedge mazes developed from knot gardens, and whilst many early hedge mazes were also single pathed, it is from these that multicursal puzzle mazes in a more contemporary form began to emerge. In the modern era, there have been attraction mazes created for the amusement and bemuse
Labyrinths Travel Guide Sections
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