Well I have started some armchair traveling lately through time and space. My first excursion involves following Edith Wharton's grand tour of Italian villas in the early 1900's. She started by traveling through Switzerland into the Lombardy Region of Italy via the Simpton Pass. Consider this description:
"One by one the travelers alighted from their carriages and fell under the spell cast by the purity of transalpine light playing on the splendor of the scenery. It was a landscape that stretched from the highest highs of its perpetually snowy white peaks to the bottomless depths of its brooding, deep blue lakes."
Doesn't a Grand Tour of the Italian villas and gardens of the Lombardy Region sound like a great place to start our journey? Let's armchair travel together and see where we end up.
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