Giovanni Paolo Panini 1691-1765 was the most celebrated and popular view painter in eighteenth-century Rome.

https://www.nga.gov/collection/artist-info.1766.html

Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-1778)
https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pira/hd_pira.htm

 Rome,  founded in 753 BC, became  one of the greatest empires that ever existed, Caput Mundi. 

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/91/

https://www.pantheonroma.com/home-eng/
Pantheon

https://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/grtr/hd_grtr.htm

https://www.rct.uk/collection/406983/the-tribuna-of-the-uffizi

Johan Joseph Zoffany's Tribune of the Uffizi 1771 depicts the Florentine  Tribuna is the hexagonal domed room created in 1585-9 by Bernardo Buontalenti (1536-1608) at the Uffizi palace for the display of the masterpieces in the Medici collection.

https://duomo.firenze.it/en/discover/dome
the largest masonry vault in the world built between 1420 and 1436 by Filippo Brunelleschi.

For details of Siena a world heritage site : https://www.unesco.it/it/PatrimonioMondiale/Detail/109

For details of the Palio di Siena
https://artsandculture.google.com/partner/consorzio-per-la-tutela-del-palio-di-siena

For details of Siena cathedral 
https://www.discovertuscany.com/siena/siena-churches/duomo.html

San Gimignano UNESCO world heritage monument

https://whc.unesco.org/en/list/550/

further details of collections of works by Benozzo Gozzoli (1421-1497) https://www.museothyssen.org/en/collection/artists/gozzoli-benozzo

Intrepid explorers  Milordi ventured forth from Venice to Ravenna pausing to wonderful sights and monuments in this spectacular and unique walled early christian city of Ravenna:  

 Mausoleum of Galla  Placidia :
https://www.turismo.ra.it/en/culture-and-history/unesco-world-heritage/mausoleum-of-galla-placidia/

Neon baptistery  https://www.ravennamosaici.it/en/neonian-baptistery/

Sant Apollinare in Nuovo,   https://www.thebyzantinelegacy.com/apollinare-nuovo 

San Vitale:  https://www.turismo.ra.it/en/culture-and-history/religious-buildings/basilica-san-vitale/

This episode sees the Grand Tourists travelling across the lagoon to see some of the islands. the magnificent Basilica di Santa Maria Assunt was a must see on for the feast of the Assumption on Torcello
https://www.venetoinside.com/attraction-tickets-in-veneto/tickets/torcello-basilica/

How did the Grand Tourists get around Venice? The flat bottomed gondolier was the main means of transport. Rencently, in 2010 the first female gondolier, Giorgia Boscolo was given a licence !