Episodes

  • Roma: La Città Eterna. Part II
    Dec 30 2022

    Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691-1765 was the most celebrated and popular view painter in eighteenth-century Rome.

    https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1766.html

    Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
    https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pira/hd_pira.htm

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    26 mins
  • Roma: Caput Mundi: Arrival of the Grand Tourist. Part I
    Dec 30 2022

     Rome,  founded in 753 BC, became  one of the greatest empires that ever existed, Caput Mundi. 

    https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91/

    https://www.pantheonroma.com/home-eng/
    Pantheon

    https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grtr/hd_grtr.htm

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    22 mins
  • Firenze: The Tribuna of the Uffizi, and the Florentine Grand Tour
    Dec 30 2022

    https://www.rct.uk/collection/406983/the-tribuna-of-the-uffizi

    Johan Joseph Zoffany's Tribune of the Uffizi 1771 depicts the Florentine  Tribuna is the hexagonal domed room created in 1585-9 by Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608) at the Uffizi palace for the display of the masterpieces in the Medici collection.

    https://duomo.firenze.it/en/discover/dome
    the largest masonry vault in the world built between 1420 and 1436 by Filippo Brunelleschi.

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    24 mins
  • Siena: A portrait of the city
    Sep 30 2022



    For details of Siena a world heritage site : https://www.unesco.it/it/PatrimonioMondiale/Detail/109

    For details of the Palio di Siena
    https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/consorzio-per-la-tutela-del-palio-di-siena

    For details of Siena cathedral 
    https://www.discovertuscany.com/siena/siena-churches/duomo.html

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    16 mins
  • 'San Gimignano delle belle Torri'
    Jul 22 2022

    San Gimignano UNESCO world heritage monument

    https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/550/

    further details of collections of works by Benozzo Gozzoli (1421-1497) https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/gozzoli-benozzo

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    19 mins
  • Ravenna: Spectacular Early Christian Adventure for Grand Tourists
    Jul 1 2022

    Intrepid explorers  Milordi ventured forth from Venice to Ravenna pausing to wonderful sights and monuments in this spectacular and unique walled early christian city of Ravenna:  

     Mausoleum of Galla  Placidia :
    https://www.turismo.ra.it/en/culture-and-history/unesco-world-heritage/mausoleum-of-galla-placidia/

    Neon baptistery  https://www.ravennamosaici.it/en/neonian-baptistery/

    Sant Apollinare in Nuovo,   https://www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/apollinare-nuovo 

    San Vitale:  https://www.turismo.ra.it/en/culture-and-history/religious-buildings/basilica-san-vitale/

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    22 mins
  • Torcello _ Burano daytripping for Grand Tourists such sights to behold!
    Jun 17 2022

    This episode sees the Grand Tourists travelling across the lagoon to see some of the islands. the magnificent Basilica di Santa Maria Assunt was a must see on for the feast of the Assumption on Torcello
    https://www.venetoinside.com/attraction-tickets-in-veneto/tickets/torcello-basilica/

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    21 mins
  • Venice: Gondoliers and Gondolas
    Jun 3 2022

    How did the Grand Tourists get around Venice? The flat bottomed gondolier was the main means of transport. Rencently, in 2010 the first female gondolier, Giorgia Boscolo was given a licence ! 

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    17 mins