The Grand Tour as a Complementary of Gentlemen’s Education
The Grand Tour as a Complementary of Gentlemen’s Education

Summary/Abstract: During the Middle Ages travel was considered to be moral challenge in England. It was with the advance of Renaissance that, with the reintroduction of the Graeco-Roman ideal of travel, it occupied an important place in the education of young gentlemen. Shortly after graduating from Cambridge or Oxford they would take the grand tour and visit European countries like France, Italy, Switzerland, Austria and Germany. These grand tour travelers of the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth century were then imitated by the tourists of nineteenth century when travel became available to more people as the transportation technologies develop and travel became less costly. The present study investigates how grand tour as the concept of travel open only to the wealthy classes of society has evolved in time and become affordable for the less fortunate classes of society in the form of gap year.

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