Sky is about to launch a new travel
docu-series called Grand Tour. Viaggio in Italia, which will debut on
Tuesday, March 14 at 9:15pm on Sky Arte. It will also be available to stream on
NOW and on demand on Sky Go.
Alessandro Sperduti will be the guide of the Grand Tour, a popular
pilgrimage from northern to southern Italy undertaken by famous writers,
painters, and sculptors from the 18th century onward. Along the
journey, he will tell the stories of those foreign artists (such as Velazquez,
Rubens, Van Dyck, Picasso and Andy Warhol, among others) who chose Italy as a
place of apprenticeship, taking inspiration from the works of such masters as
Michelangelo, Raffaello or Caravaggio.
Through the words of great writers, from Goethe
to Stendhal, Sperduti's journey will show an unprecedented Italy, with an
exotic and sometimes ominous charm. A country that has always presented itself
as a regenerative place, where one can discover the springs of civilization.
The new Sky Original docu-series, produced by
3D Produzioni, is composed of six half-hour episodes, each one focusing on a
different Italian city. On its debut there will be two back-to-back episodes, also
exploring the origins of the Grand Tour itself and the new artistic stimuli
that it caused all around Europe.
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