Redéfinition du projet impérial ou construction d’un réseau de clients ? Les étapes allemandes du voyage du prince Philippe aux Pays-Bas (1548-1552) by Étienne Bourdeu

“…Felipe’s journey to the Low Countries between 1548 and 1551 was no mere nobleman’s educational «Grand Tour» or official passage to take possession of the Flemish territories. …”
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The Phlegraean and Neapolitan landscape in Prosper Barbot’s drawings by Matteo Borriello

“…Between the end of the eighteenth and the first half of the nineteenth century, the south of Italy becomes one of the central destinations of the Grand Tour, travelers and foreign artists tell the landscape through the drafting of travel reports and drawings that give back an image of the places often changed over time. …”
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A European View on Ruins in Naples and Messina during the 17th and 18th Centuries by Massimo Visone

“…The Kingdom of Naples was one of the protagonists of that dynamism that pushed men to explore unusual territories along the Grand Tour route with the intent of acquiring new scientific tools of analysis. …”
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The End of Landscape by Antonello Russo

“…In the 17th century, the cultural dimension of ‘discoveries’ led to a portrayal of the Italian territory and the places delegated to the idealization of its landscape, through identification of the compulsory itineraries of Grand Tour travellers. Currently, a new portrayal is pressing due to the actual morphological situation brought about during the great transformation of the territory that occurred in the second half of the 20th century. …”
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La coscienza del viaggiatore : il Danubio di Claudio Magris by Marialuisa Vianello

“…Percorso di formazione, come all’epoca del Grand Tour ? o Wanderung, vagabondaggio anarchico privo di una meta finale ? …”
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THE COMPATIBILITY STUDENT CHOICE OF UNIVERSITY MAJORING; A PRELIMINARY STUDIES by Daharnis Daharnis, Zadrian Ardi

“…The result of this study used as a grand tour or a preliminary study for further research.…”
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Luffarturisten och längtan efter det autentiska by Erika Andersson

“…It is a way of transcending the routines of everyday life, to meet the unpredictable and experience the adventures of travelling. It is like a Grand Tour of the 20th century. To see the "real" world, how it "really" is, seems to be an important aspect of this type of tourism. …”
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De la fête galante à la conversation entre les genres : la place de Philip Mercier dans l’évolution de l’art du portrait en Angleterre by Vanessa Alayrac-Fielding

“…The painter Philip(pe) Mercier, the son of a French Huguenot family living in Berlin, arrived in London in 1716 after undertaking a grand tour of Italy and France. A versatile painter who produced works belonging to different genres, ranging from genre scenes and fêtes galantes to conversation paintings, portraits and fancy pictures, Philip Mercier used his knowledge of Antoine Watteau’s work to launch his career in London, often imitating the master’s recognisable style. …”
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Viaggio tra i paesaggi della Sicilia. I workshop di Progettazione Architettonica by Adriana Sarro

“…La Sicilia e il suo territorio, meta dei viaggiatori arabi e successivamente dei viaggiatori del Grand Tour tra il ‘700 e ‘800 e architetti degli anni ‘20, interessati sempre alla conoscenza del suo paesaggio, è stata attraversata negli ultimi anni, da studenti e docenti, che hanno partecipato ai numerosi workshop e simposi interessati alla conoscenza dei luoghi della città e del paesaggio, dove potere presentare un progetto di trasformazione. …”
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Alle origini di una difficile tutela: Amedeo Maiuri e i restauri al parco archeologico delle terme di Baia by Luigi Veronese

“…Nevertheless the gulf of Baia, with the ruins still visible, has always been a wonderful set for painters and writers during their Grand Tour in the Italian lands. When Amedeo Maiuri started his service at the Superintendence for Antiquities of Campania and Molise, in 1924, the activity of the Neapolitan office was almost entirely directed at the continuation of excavation and restoration of the archaeological site of Pompeii. …”
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My City of Ruins: Bruce Springsteen e l’utopia fra le rovine by Enrico Botta

“…Furthermore, the paper tries to point out how My City of Ruins no longer describes the symbolic ruins of a foreign past—in line with the nineteenth and twentieth-century American cultural tradition of the Grand Tour—but defines the physical signs of a definitively collapsed “American dream,” which can survive only in a utopian and spiritual “Promised Land.”…”
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Italian prehistorians and their relationships with foreign colleagues by Alessandro Guidi

“…On the background of this intellectual adventure it is possible to see an ever latent conflict between the dominant stream of Italian archaeology made by classical studies and history of ancient art, born in an international climate together with the “Grand Tour” tradition and this new “Cinderella” of Italian archaeology, the paleoethnology (a word invented during the 1865 meeting of natural scientists in La Spezia meaning “ethnology of ancient peoples”), surely with deepest roots in the national tradition, very strong in the age of the glorious “Risorgimento”.…”

«How I portrayed it as natural». The Southern Italy between Sketches and Descriptive Notes in the Chronicle of Journey by Jérome Maurand (1544) by Giuseppina Scamardì

“…These sites are far from the usual itinerary and routes, for which the view - at least until the explosion of interest in the Grand Tour - is rare or even nonexistent, so that every new contribution proves significant in terms of documentary testimony.…”
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Personalizing Wellness: A Grounded Theory Study by Kari Allen-Hammer

“…The impetus for exploring how people created wellness using classic grounded theory rose from an interest in understanding behavior that shaped a health-conscious lifestyle. The grand tour question was, “what does wellness look like to you; how do you see yourself cultivating that in your life?” …”
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Developing Mind Body Hunger Mastery by Siri Khalsa-Zemel, Kara Vander Linden

“…The high rates of overweight and obesity in the United States are alarming and the mind body link with hunger is a rich area for study. The grand tour question for this classic grounded theory study was “can you tell me about your experience with hunger?” …”
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Slovenia as a locale in contemporary Australian verse by Igor Maver

“…Rather than that Slovenia increasingly makes part of an average Australian 'Grand Tour' travel itinerary in Europe; it has thus become present in the Australian cultural consciousness. …”
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Antonio Porta and Seventeenth-Century Central European Architecture by Krummholz, Martin

“…On the one hand there were many artists from the Lugano region active in Turin who later went on to work in Central Europe, and on the other numerous Central European aristocrats stayed for a while in Turin as part of their grand tour. It was via Turin that the influences of French architecture were reflected in the Bohemian and Central European milieus.…”
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Auberges siciliennes au XIXe siècle dans quelques récits de voyageurs français by Brigitte Urbani

“…Si la péninsule italienne, étape obligée du “Grand Tour”, a tôt été parcourue par les voyageurs européens, c’est au XIXe siècle seulement, avec le développement du ‘voyage en Orient’ que la Sicile est mise à l’honneur. …”
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Pietroburghesi in viaggio: cultura popolare ed etnografia urbana by Emilio Mari

“…The aim of this paper is to retrace how this new concept of tourism – antithetical to the old aristocratic Grand Tour – took shape: a tourism whose aim was to encounter "internal" and "intrasystemic" otherness, nestled away in the folds of industrial modernity, in the crevices of a deeply stratified and heterogeneous landscape. …”
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Viaggiatori per “diporto” nella Napoli di antico regime by Paola Avallone

“…Operatori turistici come Thomas Cook arriveranno in Italia solo nella seconda metà dell’800 quando ormai è in declino il Grand Tour. Diffusosi a partire dal XVII, il Grand Tour era inteso come quel lungo viaggio nell'Europa continentale effettuato dai ricchi giovani dell'aristocrazia britannica e destinato a perfezionare la loro educazione con partenza ed arrivo in una medesima città. …”
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