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For around 250 years, undertaking a Grand Tour was considered the pinnacle of good taste, intellectual curiosity and artistic learning. Embarked upon by young aristocratic types throughout the 16th to 19th centuries, this round-trip of Europe, sometimes taking, the Lake Geneva of Mary Shelley’s , and the Versailles of whichever Marie-Antoinette biopic you happen to love most.