Some time ago we told you about Uffizi Gallery in Florence and their entry into the digital scene thanks to the program Google Arts & Culture. The American giant seems to have taken a liking to it and now, after not a few works, it will be possible to relive in first person one of the symbolic journeys of the eighteenth century. We are talking about the Google Grand Tour, now available on Arts & Culture.
From Venice to Palermo: the Google Grand Tour
A journey through the greatest local wonders: here is the Google Grand Tour. But what will it be possible to see? Thanks to a huge collection of images, photos and videos we will be able to enjoy places and monuments scattered around the country. It starts from Venezia to relive the spectacle of the Festa del Redeemer. With a series of 360 ° photos we will not miss a single detail of the fireworks in Piazza San Marco. A tour of the museums, perhaps admiring Canaletto with 4K images, then off, it goes down to Siena where we will witness the preparations for the historian Palio in Piazza Campo. With Street View we will also be able to move around the beautiful streets of the neighbor Pienza, declared a Unesco World Heritage Site and famous for its Renaissance architecture. Continuing the inevitable route, a stage a Roma. Streets, museums, monuments: all just a click away with high definition images from Google.
After the eternal city we slip into Sicily, a Palermo, where a stop in the largest opera house in Italy will be mandatory: the Massimo Opera House. For lovers of the open air it will be possible to take a complete tour of the Zisa Castle. It closes with the Valley of the Temples, historical complex of Hellenic temples preserved in perfect condition. Here too there is space for very high resolution images, videos and curiosities to get to know and experience this wonder to the fullest. All directly from your PC or from our Smartphone from anywhere in the world.
Of course, the Google Grand Tour is not just that. Every day stages, monuments and more will be added thanks above all to the collaboration of trade associations. With the hope of reconstructing the entire journey as it appeared centuries ago.
From Goethe to Google
The Google Grand Tour obviously takes inspiration from the journey that poets, men of culture or simple travelers traveled about 300 years ago. We usually left from Northern Europe, descending towards Italy through the whole old continent. The wonders of the Belpaese soon became the cornerstone of the Grand Tour, with Rome an obligatory stop for anyone. Subsequently, thanks to the discoveries of Pompeii, Herculaneum and other sites in the South, the interest in Italy changed considerably. So they went to rediscover places of historical and natural importance such as the Valley of the Temples, the Phlegraean Fields or Mount Etna. Among the great characters who have crossed the boot, Goethe he is perhaps the one who left the best testimony that has come down to us. Between 1786 and 1788 the German writer visited Italy, traveling it from north to south. A unique and intense journey, reported in writing in two volumes published between 1816 and 1817: theItalian trip.
