<P> In 2009, the Grand Tour featured prominently in a BBC / PBS miniseries based on Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens . Set mainly in Venice, it portrayed the Grand Tour as a rite of passage . </P> <P> Kevin McCloud presented Kevin McCloud's Grand Tour on Channel 4 in 2009 with McCloud retracing the tours of British architects . </P> <P> In 2005, British art historian Brian Sewell followed in the footsteps of the Grand Tourists for a 10 - part television series Brian Sewell's Grand Tour . Produced by UK's Channel Five, Sewell travelled by car and confined his attention solely to Italy stopping in Rome, Florence, Naples, Pompeii, Turin, Milan, Cremona, Siena, Bologna, Vicenza, Paestum, Urbino, Tivoli and concluding at a Venetian masked ball . </P> <P> In 1998, the BBC produced an art history series Sister Wendy's Grand Tour presented by Carmelite nun Sister Wendy . Ostensibly an art history series, the journey takes her from Madrid to Saint Petersburg with stop - offs to see the great masterpieces . </P>

Relating to a movement in european art music and literature in late 18th and early 19th century