The Grand Tour

Brian Sewell (but of course) writes in the Evening Standard that the Grand Tour of Italy went in the order of:

1. Paris
2. Turin = most modern city in Europe
   
3. Bologna = post-Raphaelite paintings of the Carracci, Reni, Guercino & followers
   
4. Florence = Italian Renaissance
   
5. Rome = Antiquity
   
6. Naples = the bay & Vesuvius
   
7. Venice = relaxation

He sums up that this is a 'cultural education chronologically reversed', undertaken by those who were 'by wealth and rank "destined to a sauntering insignificant life".'