The Grand Tour · event 2 of 10

1719

The spa town is invented. Bath’s rebuilding under Beau Nash turns taking the waters into a social season. Spa towns across Europe — Baden-Baden, Karlovy Vary, Spa itself — follow the model, and medical prescription becomes the respectable justification for leisure travel.

The The Grand Tour era

  1. 1600s
  2. 1719
  3. 1750s
  4. 1786
  5. 1830
  6. 1836
  7. 5 July 1841
  8. 1855
  9. 1869
  10. 1888

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