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Some Final Thoughts

Posted by jrreisert | 2nd December 2008

“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 which introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art and culture of France and Italy for the next 300 years.” (see “The Grand Tour,” Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History, at www.metmuseum.org).

Our Grand Tour was not nearly so grand as the travels of those young aristocrats, but it was grand enough for us. For our family of four to travel to nine countries in ten weeks, was an incredible undertaking. And it was indeed a grand and wonderful time for all of us.

Like those young aristocrats, we began in London, but our tour was really anchored in Italy, the country in which we spent the most time of all of the countries that we visited. We spent well over two weeks in Italy, visiting Venice, Florence, Lucca, Rome,

Continued | Reisert Family Grand Tour

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