The new BBC celebs-go-on-holiday show, sending pals Rob Rinder and Rylan Clark to Venice, Florence and Rome on a grand tour might have given you travel fatigue. After all, the aristocratic Grand Tour has been fertile ground for the TV travelogue – in recent years, Kevin McCloud, historian Bettany Hughes and art critic Brian Sewell undertook the arduous task of a free jolly round Europe's cultural hotspots in the footsteps of Byron and Shelley.
Listening to the church bells across the rooftops of the city, he says: “If you just listen enough, you're back in the 17th or 18th century... it's like being in the middle of the greatest opera set ever.” But his enthusiasm is infectious, and such is Rylan's hitherto unforeseen capacity for soaking up knowledge, it's not long before he is exclaiming “I am the Dome!”, looking out across the rooftops from the beautiful Duomo – the cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore.
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