Tourism and the Construction of Regional Identities
Journal: Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS)
Year: 2018

the brothers Grimm and the attitude of painters specialized in rural themes, 1 such as Jean-Franois Millet, who primarily depicted the life of the peasants and a generic countryside, which generally was not recognizable as belonging to a specific region. 2 Around 1900, as a consequence of the Second Industrial Revolution, secondary railway lines, bicycles, automobiles and buses made leisure trips to more remote areas easier to undertake.Everywhere in Europe associations of excursionists sprang u