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'''Literary travel''' is a form of tourism centred on great works of literature, literary movements, the literature surrounding cultural and political movements,
etc
.
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'''Literary travel''' is a form of tourism centred on great works of literature, literary movements, the literature surrounding cultural and political movements,
or beloved authors
.
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Examples
include
tours
of:
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There
are
many examples, and some - such as [[Literary London]] - even get their own page on Wikivoyage.
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Savannah
themed
on ''
Midnight
in the
Garden
of
Good
and
Evil
''
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Never
to
be outdone without a fight, [[Paris]] has no shortage of literary sites, especially
on
the Left Bank and Montparnasse. Paris
'
s answer to Shakespeare
'
s Globe Theater is the Comédie-Française, also known as the Théâtre-Français - and what a ripe subject for comparison and contrast! After paying your respect to the Lost Generation at Gertrude Stein's salon at 27 rue De Fleurs (and maybe also Natalie Clifford Barney's modestly titled Literary Salon of the Greats at 20 rue Jacob), you can shop
in
their footsteps at Shakespeare and Company or drink in their shadows at les Deus Magots, la Closerie des Lilas, or le Café de Flore. (A more contemporary version is l’Autre Café.) If you don't find Quasimodo at Notre-Dame de Paris, visit Hugo's house at 6 Place des Vosges. For contemporary poetry readings, check out La Maison Poesie, close to
the
Pompidou
Centre, or, especially if you want to hear the empire write back, Culture Rapide. No bibliophile should leave Paris without a visit to the one-
of
-a-kind
bookstore Tea
and
Tattered Pages, or the reading room in the back of La Fumoir. At Musée de la vie Romantique you can find out almost anything you
'
d want to know about George Sand; the Hôtel de Lauzun on the Île St. Louis inspired Baudelaire to write
'
'Fleurs du Mal'' - what effect will it have on you? Search for lost time at the Musée Carnavalet, or, if the touristy morbidity doesn't offend you, visit the Cimetière de Montparnasse to find the graves of many of your favorite authors, or look for the wallpaper that killed Oscar Wilde at l’Hôtel in the 6th Arrondissement, though you might prefer to enjoy the literary kitsch at the Apostrophe Hotel, or sleep where your heroes did at l’Hôtel Pont Royal. If you seek to join their ranks, you can consider joining a writing workshop with [http://www.pariscafewriting.com/Site/Home.html Paris Café Writing]. Evidently there are even ''Da Vinci Code'' themed tours! Even if that's not your thing, you might enjoy eating in the restaurant at Nicholas Flamel's house at 52 rue de Montmorency, the oldest stone house in Paris.
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The
''Da
Vinci
Code'
'
themed
tours
of [[
Paris
]]
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Back
in
England,
no
one who ever longed to have their own bodice ripped by Rochester or Heathcliff would want to miss [[Brontë Country]] in West Yorkshire; if you
'
re
not
afraid
of
Virginia Woolf, visit Monk's House in
[[
East Sussex
]]
. Or search for King Arthur in Cornwall. Perhaps the French answer is the [[Loire Valley]]: if you can afford to stay there long enough, there could be no better place to read Dumas or Perrault.
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*
''To
Hell
and
Back''
with
Dante:
The
Flowering
of
the
Late
Middle
Ages
in
Italy
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Fans
of
Joyce
will
want
to
walk
''Ulysses''
in
Dublin,
especially
on
Bloom's
Day
(16
June).
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In
Search
of
King
Arthur
in
Cornwall
England
+
If Russian literature is your thing, you'll want to take the famed '''Murder Walk''' in Dostoevsky's neighborhood of [[Saint Petersburg]].
In
Moscow you can take a tour
of
sites
from
Bulgakov's ''Master and Margarita''. Near [[Tula]] is Yasnaya Polyana, where Tolstoy wrote both "War and Peace" and "Anna
Karenina".
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The
famed
'''Murder
Walk'''
in
Dostoevsky's
neighborhood of
[[
Saint Petersburg
]]
+
Any
Anglophone
who
runs
with
the
bulls
in
[[
Pamplona
]]
(or even thinks of it) follow the footsteps of Brett and Jake in "The Sun Also Rises".
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A
themed
tour
of
Moscow
around
Bulgakov's
''Master
and
Margarita''
+
And
of
course,
the
undead must
visit
Castle
[[Bran]]
in
[[Transylvania]].
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*
The
''Millennium
Tour''
in [[
Stockholm
]]
, inspired by Stieg Larsson's novel
series
+
Pamuk's
"
The
Museum
of Innocence" actually exists
in [[
Istanbul
]]
.
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*
[[
New
Zealand
]],
with
the
locations
of the ''
Lord
of
the
Rings
''
cinematic
trilogy
+
The Americas have their own sites. Any little Anne can visit the actual Green Gables on
[[
Prince Edward
Island]]. Fans of Thoreau's "Walden" might want to visit [[Concord (Massachusetts)]]. You won't find the Headless Horseman in [[Sleepy Hollow
]],
but you can find Washington Irving's grave there. Travelers to [[Hartford]] can visit both
the
Mark Twain House and Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Library. Head west in the footsteps
of the
Beats, or follow [[Route 66]] like the Joads in "Grapes of Wrath". You can find Cannery Row in [[Monterey]], California; nearby are many places dedicated to the memory of Steinbeck. There are several sites related to "the book" (
''
Midnight
in
the
Garden of Good and Evil
''
) in [[Savannah]], particularly Forsythe Park. Anyone in [[Buenos Aires]] might look out for places associated with
Borges.
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*
Walking
"Ulysses"
in
[[
Dublin
]]
+
About
90
miles
outside of
[[
Durban
]]
, Alan Paton fans can find Ixopo, and look for the lovely road that runs from there into the hills.
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*
Cannery
Row
in [[
Monterey
]],
California
+
On
the
other side of the world, lovers of "The Dream of the Red Chamber" will want to spend a few hours contemplating the Garden of the Humble Administrator
in [[
Suzhou
]],
and anyone who knows "The True Story of Ah Q" might want to visit [[Hangzhou]], where Lu Xun was imprisoned. Fans of Rabindrinath Tagore will enjoy [[Santiniketan]]. Aspiring novelists might find inspiration at Ishiyamadera Temple in [[Otsu]], where Murasaki Shikibu is believed to have written (or at least begun to write) "The Tale of Genji".
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*
Following
[[Route
66]]
like
the
Joads
in
"Grapes
of
Wrath"
+
Just
pick
your
favorite
writer
and
do
a
little
research: they all lived somewhere!
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*
Any
Anglophone
who
runs with the bulls in [[Pamplona]] (or even thinks of it) follow the footsteps of Brett and Jake in "The Sun Also Rises"
+
Some
other
examples
include:
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*
And
of
course,
the
undead
must
visit
Castle
[[Bran]]
in
[[Transylvania]]
+
*
''To
Hell
and
Back''
with
Dante: The Flowering of the
Late
Middle
Ages
in
Italy
−
In
addition, fans of certain authors might want to visit places identified with those authors. No one who ever longed to have their own bodice ripped by Rochester or Heathcliff would want to miss [[Brontë Country]] in West Yorkshire; if
you
'
re not afraid of Virginia Woolf, visit Monk
'
s House in [[East Sussex]]. Any little Anne can visit the actual Green Gables on [[Prince Edward Island]], and all the little Artful Dodgers might want to visit the Dickens Museum in [[London]]. Never to be outdone, [[Paris]] has no shortage of literary sites, including Les Deux Magots; you can look for Quasimodo at Notre-Dame de Paris. Fans of
Thoreau
'
s "Walden" might want to visit [[Concord (Massachusetts)]]. You won
'
t find the Headless Horseman
in [[
Sleepy Hollow
]],
but
you
can
find Washington Irving
's
grave there. If you can afford to hang out in the [[Loire Valley]] long enough, there could be no better place to read Dumas or Perrault. Travelers to [[Hartford]] can visit both the Mark Twain House and Museum and the Harriet Beecher Stowe House and Library; near [[Tula]] is Yasnaya Polyana, where Tolstoy wrote both "War and Peace" and "Anna Karenina]]; anyone in [[Buenos Aires]] might look out for places associated with Borges, who would probably have appreciated Pamuk's "The Museum of Innocence," which actually exists in [[Istanbul]]. About 90 miles outside of [[Durban]], Alan Paton fans can find Ixopo, and look for the lovely road that runs from there into the hills.
+
*
The
''
Millennium
Tour
'' in [[
Stockholm
]],
inspired
by
Stieg
Larsson
's
novel
series
−
On the other side of the world, lovers of "The Dream of the Red Chamber" will want to spend a few hours contemplating the Garden of the Humble Administrator in
[[
Suzhou
]],
and
anyone
who knows "The True Story
of
Ah
Q" might want to visit [[Hangzhou]], where Lu Xun was imprisoned. Fans
of
Rabindrinath
Tagore
will enjoy [[Santiniketan]]. Aspiring novelists might find inspiration at Ishiyamadera Temple in [[Otsu]], where Murasaki Shikibu is believed to have written (or at least begun to write) "The Tale of
Genji."
+
*
[[
New Zealand
]],
with
the
locations
of
the
''Lord
of
the
Rings''
cinematic
trilogy
−
−
Examples abound: Just pick your favorite writer and do a little research: they all lived somewhere!
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