The Grand Tour: Art and Gardens
Gain appreciation for the art, literature, history, politics, economics, religion, and topography that shaped the art and gardens of The Grand Tour sites. Influenced by the experiences and legacy of visitors to Italy and France over the centuries, students will write travelogues inspired by their own Grand Tour.
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Over the course of three weeks, I travelled to Italy, France, and all around the United Kingdom. And I loved all of the places I got to visit. Each city and country had so many things that were unique and amazing. But, overwhelmingly, my favorite place I visited was Edinburgh, Scotland. First thing in the…
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For anyone who is scared to study abroad, I was just like you. I knew that studying abroad was going to push me out of my comfort zone, and I wasn’t sure I was prepared for how far out of that zone I would go. It was daunting and exciting in the days leading up…
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My major piece of advice for someone who is traveling abroad for the first time is this: go without any expectations of any kind. I went with the hopes of recreating the trips of friends and family. I went thinking that I would hate Paris. I went thinking that I had to be busy every…
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How do I get out of here!? That was the first question I asked when I landed in FCO airport in Rome. The first signs I saw were only in Italian and “exit” was not a word that I had learned. I knew how to say “Hello!” and “My name is Elizabeth.” Yet these words…
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Lemon. レモン. Citronu. Chanh. Limão. However you say lemon, sometimes life hands them to you. Baseball game gets rained out. Your favorite tv show gets canceled. **One of your return flight connections from Europe gets canceled and you have to sit in the Boston airport praying that you get on the standby flight for 6…
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Sitting in a cool, stone walled room in a restaurant in Florence with meat curing on the ceiling and waiters bring course after course of Italian delicacies that few of us have seen before, Dr. Smalley, the Grand Tour leader, told us two words that resonated with me the entire study abroad and my time…
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The grand tour. The tour was grand, indeed. In fact, it was grand, spectacular, amazing, wonderful, and all of the other great adjectives. This trip was my first time out of the Southeastern US. I had never flown alone before. Or been in a non-English speaking country. It was a big step for me as…
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Ever since my mom took me to an impressionist art exhibit at the Cleveland Art Museum as a child, I have been transfixed by the dreamlike expressions of colorful landscapes that many of the artists painted. Although I admired many of the pieces and the artists who painted them, the artist I was drawn to…
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In Athens, my weekly trip to the grocery store is always somewhat a mindless, somewhat mechanical part of my everyday life. I know exactly which aisles I need to go to pick up my essentials for the week and the exact amount to sustain me until my next trip. When traveling abroad however, the grocery…
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It happened. The day I have been training for. The day I could express my inner Lorelai Gilmore and eat until I could no longer move. This is one of those unbutton your pants before you eat kind of meals. One of those meals you will instantly regret on the walk back to the hotel,…