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According to Bruce Redford, the Tour offered a heady combination of aesthetic, social political, and sexual experience, and it provided its alumni with a life-l

In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, a journey to Italy was considered an indispensable part of a young man's education. On arduous coach journeys, they

A fascinating study of how British travellers experienced, described and represented the cities they visited on the Grand Tour.

For members of the social elite in 18th-century England, extended travel for pleasure came to be considered part of an ideal education as well as an important s

Sex and travel have always been intertwined, and never more so than on the classic Grand Tour of Europe in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Today the Co