Tag: Grand Tour

The Grand Tour, also known as the Cavaliers’ Tour, was the name given to an obligatory journey undertaken since the Renaissance by the sons of the European nobility, later also by the upper middle classes, through Central Europe, Italy, Spain and also to the Holy Land. In England in particular, the Grand Tour found rich literary expression in the 18th century.

The island of Cyprus was known to the Hebrews under the name of Chetim (or Kittim), from Kittim the son of Javan, the son of Japhet, the son of Noah.

The “Rock of Moses” is, from its size, a remarkable object: it rests isolated where it has fallen from the eastern Mountain above

This scene represents the arrival of the caravan of the Artist and his companions, in the country, and at the tents of the Aulad-Sa’id.

This Convent has been built in the form of a square fortress of hewn granite, and flanked with towers, of which one or two have cannon.

Plan and sections of the Tomb of the Prophets; View, plan and section of the Tomb of Lazarus at Bethany.

The Pompeian House. The Atrium. Plan and section of the house of the Pansa.

The ruins of the Church of Saint John the Baptist in the ancient city of Samaria, not far from the modern city of Nablus.

View of one of the oldest and most interesting Canaanite cities in Palestine. Nablous contains some fine fragments of its former grandeur.

The Shechem of the Old Testament, and Sychar of the New, once the capital of Samaria, was a city of very high antiquity, and eminent renown.

Jacob’s Well (the Well of the Samaritan Woman) is a well in Samaria at the foot of Mount Garizim near biblical Shechem (now Nablus).