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Grand Tour started in sixteenth century and gaining popularity during the century Grand Tour ketujuhbelas.Istilah was introduced by Richard Lessels in the 1670 book Voyage to Italy. Guidebooks, a tour guide, and a growing tourism industry and was developed to meet the needs of 20-something tourists, men and women and their tutors throughout the European continent. Young people and wealthy tourists who are able a few years abroad. They brought a letter of introduction and reference them as they depart from the south of England.

The most common of crossing English Channel (La manche) was made from Dover to Calais, France (Channel Tunnel route from today). A trip from Dover across the Channel to Calais to Paris and customarily spends the next three days. At the crossing of the channel is not easy one. There is a risk of seasickness, sick, and even sabotage.

Grand Tourists, especially those who are interested in visiting the cities that are considered as the main cultural center at the time - Paris, Rome, Venice, and will not be missed. Florence and Naples are also popular destination. Grand Tourist will travel from city to city and usually spend a day in small towns and up to several months in three major cities. Paris is certainly the most popular city as France is the most common second language English elite, the road to Paris is very good, and Paris is the city's most impressive to the UK.

Many tourists who spend money outside the country and because of this outside the UK, some British politicians are very much against the institution of the Grand Tour.

Arrive in Paris that tourists will usually rent the apartments for several weeks to months. Hour journey from Paris to the village or to Versailles France (home of the French monarchy), which is quite common. Visiting French and Italian royalty and the British envoy is a popular game during the Tour. Messenger of the houses that are often used as a hotel and food pantries that have annoyed many messengers, but they can not perform such inconveniences brought by their citizens. The rented apartment in the big cities, small towns are often sharp and dirty inns.

From Paris, Tourists akan resumed in the Alps or the ship in Mediterranean Sea to Italy. For those who make their way across the Alps, Turin is Italy's first city they will come to stay and while some of the other only through on their way to Venice or Rome. Rome initially point to the south they travel. However, when the excavations began of Herculaneum (1738) and Pompeii (1748), two sites that become the main goal in the Grand Tours.

Other locations included as part of the Grand Tour, including some of Spain and Portugal, Germany, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and Baltic. However, this lack of other places of interest and historical appeal Paris and Italy and under the road which has made travel more difficult, so they remain on most trips.

While the goal of the Grand Tour was a lot of education that took a more frivolous pursuits such as knowledgeable drinking, gambling, and find intimate. Journals and sketches, which should be completed during the Tour is often left blank.