Starting in the eighteenth century, Italy and Greece became places of worship and obligatory pilgrimage for young aristocrats, whose education was considered incomplete until they visited the cradle of Western culture to see some of its greatest achievements in situ. It was a tradition known as the Grand Tour, and works such as Goethe's Journey to Italy definitively contributed to it, one of the first to testify to the deep impression that Mediterranean landscapes and essences made on the inhabitants of the northern lands.
ISBN: 9788416011513