WITHOUT GPS AND CREDIT CARDS: TOURISTS IN THE AMALFI COAST IN THE 19TH C.

WITHOUT GPS AND CREDIT CARDS: TOURISTS IN THE AMALFI COAST IN THE 19TH C.

with Dieter Richter, Former Anthropology Professor at Bremen University

Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen, it’s now high season in the Mediterranean! This was true for the “Grand Tourists”, travelling without GPS and credit cards. Infact their favourite time to travel to Southern Italy was Autumn and Winter months. They hated to bronze themselves - tanning was so typical of peasants! – and they feared the hot summer weather, but they loved the blinding light of the South, its bright colours. Painters, writers, artists and scholars who left in their diaries, travel accounts – as well as in their works - a charming image of the tourism of the past. Join us and follow their footprints to discover an unforgettable Amalfi Coast.