101 Places In Italy A Private Grand Tour

Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781912242221

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Places in Italy: A private grand tour (3rd edition) by Francis Russell Pdf

A new and 50% enlarged, entertaining, but fundamentally serious selection of the most rewarding places to visit the most visited and beloved country in the world. Places described have gone from 101 to 150 in this edition. Sicily, Calabria and Apulia are the subjects of greater focus. Towns (additions include Bergamo, Pesaro, Cremona and Todi), villages, museums and individual monuments are discussed, characterised and described. A guide book in its own right, but above all a thoughtful, opinionated and supremely well-informed guide, supplement and corrective to conventional guides. Note this is not a guide to hotels, restaurants and other amenities.

Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-13
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781908524324

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101 Places in Italy: A Private Grand Tour by Francis Russell Pdf

A selection of the most remarkable places, sites, sights in Italy by a veteran visitor, distinguished scholar and intrepid traveler.

Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Historic sites
ISBN : OCLC:1132213686

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Places in Italy by Francis Russell Pdf

This personal, and wonderfully well informed, selection of the most rewarding towns, cities, villages and individual monuments in Italy is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveller. The author has been visiting Italy, for study, for work and for pleasure, for over fifty years, and is the perfect companion for those who want to know about more than the obvious attractions. As well as comprehensively covering the finest sights in the major tourist centres of Rome, Florence, Venice and elsewhere, Russell discusses and describes the neglected, or little known, masterpieces that are still to be found the length and breadth of the Italian peninsula. In a book that will educate and astonish the expert as surely as it will guide and inform the first-time visitor, the author chooses and explores palaces and gardens, city squares and lonely churches, frescoes and altarpieces, great museums and tiny ruins that together provide a richly textured portrait of a country where the history and patterns of civilization lie more thickly than anywhere else on earth.

Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Allemandi
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2008-02
Category : Travel
ISBN : 8842215384

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52 Italian Places by Francis Russell Pdf

By offering 52 places that shouldn't be missed on a trip to Italy, this book gives travelers a thread to follow, one that will lead them to places the author likes best, from the thousands of possibilities in Venice to the small hill town that boasts of a single masterpiece.

Author : Francis Russell
Publisher : Bitter Lemon Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781908524881

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123 Places in Turkey by Francis Russell Pdf

This personal and well-informed selection and description of the most interesting towns and individual buildings and archaeological sites in Turkey is the definitive guidebook for the discerning traveler. The author has been visiting Turkey for nearly fifty years and is the perfect companion for those who want to know about more than the obvious attractions. This book will immeasurably enhance any thoughtful traveler's visit, but can also be read at home as an aid to planning, or recalling, a trip, or simply as a guide to the astonishing and multi-faceted artistic and architectural riches of that most fascinating country.

Author : Robert S. Kane
Publisher : Doubleday Books
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Travel
ISBN : STANFORD:36105036752439

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Italy A to Z by Robert S. Kane Pdf

Author : Black Jeremy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0333997387

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Italy and the Grand Tour by Black Jeremy Pdf

Author : Thomas Nugent
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1756
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB10469553

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The grand tour by Thomas Nugent Pdf

Author : Rosemary Sweet
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-10-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781139576895

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Cities and the Grand Tour by Rosemary Sweet Pdf

How did eighteenth-century travellers experience, describe and represent the urban environments they encountered as they made the Grand Tour? This fascinating book focuses on the changing responses of the British to the cities of Florence, Rome, Naples and Venice, during a period of unprecedented urbanisation at home. Drawing on a wide range of unpublished material, including travel accounts written by women, Rosemary Sweet explores how travel literature helped to create and perpetuate the image of a city; what the different meanings and imaginative associations attached to these cities were; and how the contrasting descriptions of each of these cities reflected the travellers' own attitudes to urbanism. More broadly, the book explores the construction and performance of personal, gender and national identities, and the shift in cultural values away from neo-classicism towards medievalism and the gothic, which is central to our understanding of eighteenth-century culture and the transition to modernity.

Author : Doug Lansky
Publisher : LookBook Digital Publishing
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780990776901

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TRAVEL: The Guide by Doug Lansky Pdf

TRAVEL: The Guide is an insightful, irreverent, and highly visual new take on travel that will challenge readers to rethink the way they look at travel and how they interact with the world around them. It's like an eye-opening TED Talk on travel that you can flip through at your own pace. Jason Cochran, author and editor for Frommer's guides, described it this way: "It’s not really just about travel. It’s about exploding every stereotype, fear, and expectation you have about the rest of the world and your place in it. Once you start flipping through, you’ll be consuming little knowledge bombs like potato chips. Good luck stopping. And good luck seeing things the same way ever again.” Mike Carter, a contributor to The Observer and The Guardian wrote: “Turns on its head just about everything we thought we knew about how to get the best out of our travels, gloriously debunking the myths and exposing the clichés along the way.”

Author : HIP Hotels
Publisher : Hip Media Group
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-11
Category : Grand tours (Education)
ISBN : 0993557708

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The Grand Tour by HIP Hotels Pdf

- Perfectly interpreted in a contemporary, enriching manner, The Grand Tour takes the viewer on an inspirational journey through Italy's most individual hotels scattered all over the peninsula, all whilst letting readers discover the myriad of culture that there is to learn from every corner of this great country - The Grand Tour proposes a distinct way of traveling, becoming an invaluable travel companion or a unique window on the world in the making Beginning in the late 16th century it became fashionable for the aristocracy to visit Italy; from Venice to Florence and Rome as the culmination of their classical education. Thus, the idea of The Grand Tour was born; a practice which taught art, architecture and culture to the noblemen of the time. In England, where grand architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, gentlemen often applied what they had learnt from the villas of Palladio in Veneto, the evocative ruins of Rome and the grand churches in Florence, to their own country houses and gardens, purchasing antiquities and paintings whilst in Italy. The Italy of today still remains a romantic destination. In this book, each reader will be able to travel on a modern-day Grand Tour, staying in the most inspiring and unique properties of the country, absorbing their infinite culture, majestic beauty, unique designs and charming stories. A journey through Italy in its full splendor.

Author : Arturo Tosi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108487276

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Language and the Grand Tour by Arturo Tosi Pdf

Language is still a relatively under-researched aspect of the Grand Tour. This book offers a comprehensive introduction enriched by the amusing stories and vivid quotations collected from travellers' writings, providing crucial insights into the rise of modern vernaculars and the standardisation of European languages.

Author : Lonely Planet,Cristian Bonetto,Duncan Garwood,Paula Hardy,Donna Wheeler,Nicola Williams
Publisher : Travel Guide
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06
Category : TRAVEL
ISBN : 1760340529

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Lonely Planet Grand Tour of Italy Road Trips by Lonely Planet,Cristian Bonetto,Duncan Garwood,Paula Hardy,Donna Wheeler,Nicola Williams Pdf

Discover the freedom of the open road as you take a grand tour of Italy. Detailed coverage of the destinations visited along the way is included

Author : Robin Barton
Publisher : Fox Chapel Publishing
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-31
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9781913618223

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101 Weekends In Europe, 2nd Edition by Robin Barton Pdf

101 Weekends in Europe, 2nd Edition is a compact and stylish travel guide that details everything today’s modern travelers will want to know about 101 cities in Europe. From classic cities like Paris and Vienna to emerging destinations like Freiburg and Lecce, learn about the culture, sights, shopping experience, accommodations, and cuisine each city has to offer, as well as how to get there. Updated with new cities, top 5 places of interest for each, references to new and significant openings, over 100 new images, and so much more, this comprehensive guide is the perfect companion for both seasoned lovers of weekend city breaks wanting to choose their next adventure, or for less-experienced travelers looking for inspiration.

Author : Stephen L. Dyson
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300134971

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In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts by Stephen L. Dyson Pdf

divThe stories behind the acquisition of ancient antiquities are often as important as those that tell of their creation. This fascinating book provides a comprehensive account of the history and development of classical archaeology, explaining how and why artifacts have moved from foreign soil to collections around the world. As archaeologist Stephen Dyson shows, Greek and Roman archaeological study was closely intertwined with ideas about class and social structure; the rise of nationalism and later political ideologies such as fascism; and the physical and cultural development of most of the important art museums in Europe and the United States, whose prestige depended on their creation of collections of classical art. Accompanied by a discussion of the history of each of the major national traditions and their significant figures, this lively book shows how classical archaeology has influenced attitudes about areas as wide-ranging as tourism, nationalism, the role of the museum, and historicism in nineteenth- and twentieth-century art./DIV