Grand Tour [ Mobility / Education ]
… expanding elite British-Continental intergenerational connections. Practices > Mobility Practices > Education Keywords Academies Cosmopolitanism Court Diplomacy Education Elite Europe Italy Tourism Politeness Travel The Grand Tour was a … Russia, Scandinavia and so on. A wide range of activities were undertaken, with considerable periods of time spent at academies, universities and at certain courts and cities. Grand Tourists would tour cabinets of curiosities, collections … Initially founded by seventeenth-century French educators to deter their nobility from attending Italian universities, academies quickly became a shared aspect of western European travel culture. In the eighteenth century, academies in …
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