El viaje a Italia

The trip to Italy constitutes a fascinating phenomenon to understand the formation of Europe, its sublime moments and its most prosaic, and no less interesting, carnal adventures. From the travelers who in the Renaissance sought the "human" of Latin antiquity to the current organized, mass trips, this ritual contact with the roots of culture has influenced a multitude of writers and artists such as Edward Gibbon, Goethe, Stendhal, Heine, Turner or Henry James, among many others.