Coming Soon to
Roxy Cinema
Coming Soon to
Roxy Cinema
Presented by Lufthansa & House of Travel
Employing a rich and visually stunning archive of art, illustrations, interviews and elegant photography, this documentary brings to life the origins of modern ‘tourism’. It all started with Northern European Aristocrats and nobility travelling to Italy in search of ‘the origins of beauty’. A visit to Italy became known as ‘A Grand Tour’ and was regarded as an essential experience in a person’s education. It was no longer Christian pilgrimages to Italy; aesthetics and education were now the main concerns. It was tourism based on horse travel with the speed and practicalities that would have entailed We learn the details of these journeys through the testimonies of artists, men of letters, nobles, and scholars. Rome, Milan, Venice, Florence, Naples, and all the countryside from the Alps to Sicilia came under a new gaze and became immortalised in paintings now in collections around the world. - Paolo Rotondo