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  1. El Gran Tour: viajes educativos en el siglo XVIII

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  2. El Grand Tour y los primeros turistas

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  4. What Was the Grand Tour of Europe?

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  5. ¿Viajes culturales en el siglo XVIII? El Grand Tour europeo

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  6. Cristina del Rosso: El Grand Tour

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  1. Grand Tour

    A c. 1760 painting of James Grant, John Mytton, Thomas Robinson and Thomas Wynne on the Grand Tour by Nathaniel Dance-Holland. The Grand Tour was the principally 17th- to early 19th-century custom of a traditional trip through Europe, with Italy as a key destination, undertaken by upper-class young European men of sufficient means and rank (typically accompanied by a tutor or family member ...

  2. What was the Grand Tour?

    The average Grand Tour lasted for at least a year. As Katherine Gazzard, Curator of Art at Royal Museums Greenwich explains, this extended journey marked the culmination of a Grand Tourist's education. "The Grand Tourists would have received an education that was grounded in the Classics," she says. "During their travels to the ...

  3. What Was the Grand Tour and Where Did People Go?

    The Grand Tour was a trip of Europe, typically undertaken by young men, which begun in the 17th century and went through to the mid-19th. Women over the age of 21 would occasionally partake, providing they were accompanied by a chaperone from their family. The Grand Tour was seen as an educational trip across Europe, usually starting in Dover ...

  4. Grand tour

    grand tour, multiyear journey, typically running through France and Italy.It was undertaken by aristocratic or wealthy young men from northern Europe, especially England, to complete their education.The term was coined in 1670 by priest and writer Richard Lassels in his Voyage of Italy, but the practice probably began some 100 years earlier.It reached its height during the 18th century and ...

  5. What Was the Grand Tour of Europe?

    In the 18th century, a 'Grand Tour' became a rite of passage for wealthy young men. Essentially an elaborate form of finishing school, the tradition saw aristocrats travel across Europe to take in Greek and Roman history, language and literature, art, architecture and antiquity, while a paid 'cicerone' acted as both a chaperone and teacher.

  6. The Grand Tour of Europe in the 17th and 18th Centuries

    18th Century Grand Tour of Europe. The Travels of European Twenty-Somethings. Venice was not to be missed on the Grand Tour. Grand Canal circa 1740 painting by Canaletto. The French Revolution marked the end of a spectacular period of travel and enlightenment for European youth, particularly from England. Young English elites of the seventeenth ...

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  8. The Grand Tour Of The 18th Century

    Arts & Collections. In the eighteenth century, the Grand Tour was an obligatory part of a young nobleman's artistic, intellectual and sentimental education. The 'Grand Tour', that extended journey to Italy undertaken mainly by British but also French and German aristocrats in the eighteenth century, is not only the stuff of legend, but ...

  9. The Grand Tour

    Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all Rome, as the culmination of their classical education. Thus was born the idea of the Grand Tour, a practice that introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art and culture of France ...

  10. The Grand Tour

    Englishmen abroad. At its height, from around 1660-1820, the Grand Tour was considered to be the best way to complete a gentleman's education. After leaving school or university, young noblemen from northern Europe left for France to start the tour. After acquiring a coach in Calais, they would ride on to Paris - their first major stop.

  11. British Travelers in Eighteenth-Century Italy: The Grand Tour and the

    The Grand Tour Project at Stanford University takes a digitizing and visualizing approach to this nagging historiographical problem. 2 Our source, the 1997 prosopographical Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701-1800, compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive by John Ingamells under the sponsorship of the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art in London, focuses on ...

  12. The Grand Tour

    The Grand Tour is a British motoring television series, created by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May and Andy Wilman, made for Amazon exclusively for its online streaming service Amazon Prime Video, and premiered on 18 November 2016. The programme was conceived in the wake of the departure of Clarkson, Hammond, May and Wilman from the BBC series Top Gear and was originally contracted ...

  13. Regency History: The Grand Tour

    The Grand Tour was a period of foreign travel commonly undertaken by gentlemen to finish off their education. It was popular from the mid-17th century until the end of the 18th century when the outbreak of the Napoleonic Wars stopped most foreign travel. It saw a revival in the early 19th century after peace was restored in Europe.

  14. The Grand Tour (TV Series 2016-2024)

    The Grand Tour: With Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, Abbie Eaton. Jeremy, Richard and James embark on an adventure across the globe, driving new and exciting automobiles from manufacturers all over the world.

  15. List of The Grand Tour episodes

    The Grand Tour is a British motoring television series for Amazon Prime Video, presented by Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, and James May.The programme focuses on conducting reviews of various models of car, new models and vintage classics, as well as tackling motoring-styled challenges and races, and features the use of studio segments between pre-recorded films.

  16. The Grand Tour: Art and Travel of the 18th Century

    French painter Jacques-Louis David's sensational works at the end of the 18th century shout out revolutionary zeal. In painting, the allure of color, the beauty of line, the mystery of pictorial space, and the drama of the composition tell stories. In portraiture, we see images of saints, gods, and sovereigns.

  17. Yakima Grand Tour 18 Review

    The Grand Tour 18 tested goes for $729, with the 16 coming in at $679. Those prices are actually a bit closer to Yakima's SkyBox series below ($100 difference) than they are to the CBX 16 at $849 ...

  18. Jeremy Clarkson Confirms The Grand Tour's Final Episode on Amazon Prime

    End of The Grand Tour: Jeremy Clarkson, along with co-presenters Richard Hammond and James May, will no longer film new series of The Grand Tour after next year, following a decision by Amazon Prime's executives.This marks the end of a popular show that started in 2016 and quickly garnered a devoted fanbase. Fan Reactions and Future Prospects: Fans expressed their disappointment and ...

  19. The Grand Tour

    How the 18th century Grand Tour influenced architecture in England, and led to the creation of spectacular, neo-classical gardens at Stourhead in Wiltshire.

  20. 18th Century Rome and the Grand Tour

    The Grand Tour was an opportunity for elevated social status, educational enhancement, new cultural experiences and adventure. The idea of a cultural pilgrimage was popularized by travel writers and chroniclers such as John Evelyn (1620-1706) and earlier by Richard Lassels (1603-1668), a Roman Catholic priest who wrote The Voyage of Italy ...

  21. El 'Grand Tour': viajes educativos en el siglo XVIII

    Gran Tour viajes educativos siglo XVIII. Javier Cisa. 17/08/2017 06:15 Actualizado a 06/08/2020 09:24. A diferencia de otros países europeos, cuyos regímenes absolutistas dejaban a la ...

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  23. LPGA Tour Schedule

    Jan. 18-21 _ Hilton Grand Vacations Tournament of Champions (Lydia Ko) Jan. 25-28 _ LPGA Drive On Championship (Nelly Korda) Feb. 22-25 _ Honda LPGA Thailand (Patty Tavatanakit) Feb. 29-March 3 ...