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Professor Estes' course, The Grand Tour will examine the life of a British aristocrat of the eighteenth-century on an educational sojourn to the continent to widen his or her knowledge of contemporary affairs and deepen his or her acquaintance with the greatest monuments of western civilization. Students will begin in Rome where they will take in the ruins of the imperial city, but also see the Renaissance and Baroque parts including St. Peter's and many of the other churches and piazzas that made this city such a tourist attraction 200 years ago. Students will also spend a day in the artistic capital of Italy, Florence, and another visiting Pompeii and walking to the top of the volcano, Vesuvius, which buried that city in ash in 79 C.E. From the Rome of the popes and emperors students will move to the streets of Samuel Johnson's London. There will also be days our to Jane Austen's spa town Bath, an aristocratic watering hole, and to the "dreaming spires" of Oxford and Arundel Castle, the ancestral home of the Dukes of Norfolk. Paris will be the last stop on the trip. There will be visits to the Louvre and the Palace of Versailles as well as the older parts of the city near Notre Dame Cathedral.

Interested in this course?

Estes_LLee Estes, PhD
Associate Professor of History
(714)997-6550
estes@chapman.edu
 
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