Key to the Grand Tour 2000 Map

*Must-see.

London
*Tate Gallery (Turner)
*National Gallery (Blake)
*British Museum (Elgin Marbles, etc.)
*Westminster Abbey (cathedral + tombs--Newton, etc.)
*Kew Gardens (ultimate English park)
Hampton Court (palace, gardens, maze)
Globe Theatre (Shakespeare)
Highgate Cemetery (Marx)
Fun: Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum
Daytrips: Stonehenge, Oxford

Amsterdam
*Rijksmuseum (Rembradt)
*Van Gogh Museum
Anne Frank House
Etc.

Berlin
Dahlem Museum (Nefertiti, Caravaggio)
Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
Brandenburg Gate & East Berlin

Munich
*Alte Pinakothek (museum)
*Deutsches Museum ("German Museum) The German Smithsonian
*City Hall (animated outdoor clock)
Englischer Garten (nudist park in the center of the city)
Schwabing (artists’ quarter with bars for every sexual taste)
Fun: Hofbräuhaus (the definitive beer hall)
Daytrips: *Rothenburg ob der Tauber (best-preserved medieval town in Europe); Neuschwanstein (the definitive castle)

Salzburg
Mozart House
Mozarteum
Castle ("Salzburg")
Music

Vienna
*Kunsthistorisches Museum ("Art-history Museum")
*Music, music, music.
Coffee houses (order coffee and pastry)

Venice
*St Mark’s Cathedral, Piazza (square), Campanile (bell-tower)
Canals, gondolas, Italians, etc.
Countless other churches
Guggenheim Museum
Lido (beach and hotels)

Florence
*Palazzo Vecchio ("old palace" museum): Botticelli, Da Vinci, etc., etc.
*Cathedral
*Baptistry
*David
*Medici Tomb
*Pitti Palace (museum)
*Other churches
Ponte Vecchio ("Old Bridge") over the Arno River
Fiesole (a village in the hills above Florence)

Rome
*Vatican Museum (Greek & Roman sculpture)
*Sistine Chapel
*Borghese Gallery: Caravaggio, etc.
*Forum & Coliseum (Roman ruins)
Trevi Fountain (+ other fountains)
Catacombs
Churches, piazzas, Italians, etc.
Daytrip: Tivoli (Renaissance villa with amazing gravity-fed water gardens & sculpture)

South of Rome
Naples
Pompeii (buried by eruption of Mt. Vesuvius)
Capri (island)
Sorrento, Amalfi, etc. (picturesque coastal villages
Paestum (best Greek ruins in Western Europe, some the equal of the Acropolis in Athens)

Paris
*Louvre
Pompidou Center (museum; also known as the Beauberg) 20th century art
*Notre Dame (cathedral)
*Versailles (palace and formal gardens)
Tuilleries (park)
Champs Elysée (main street)
Fun: Folies Bergère (tourist-trap nightclub)
*Daytrip: Chartres (the definitive cathedral)

Supplement: Movies to Watch before You Go:

* = the best.

Beckett (English cathedrals)
A Man for all Seasons (British history)
Morgan (London & Marx)
*Hamlet (1948--with Laurence Olivier)
The Horse’s Mouth (London & art)
Lust for Life (Van Gogh)
*All Quiet on the Western Front (World War I)
*Triumph of the Will (Nazis)
Diary of Anne Frank (Holocaust)
*Slaughterhouse Five (World War II)
The Third Man (Vienna)
*Amadeus (Salzburg, Vienna)
*Lisztomania (German history, Neuschwanstein)
*Death in Venice (Venice)
A Room with a View (Florence & Fiesole)
Titan: the Story of Michelangelo (documentary)
*Fellini’s Satyricon (ancient Italy)
Teorema (modern Italy)

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