A journey in 19th-century Europe: the cultural heritage of some European cities and the service offered to the tourist, according to a Latin American traveler

Varillas P.E.R. · Revista Notas Historicas y Geograficas (2024) · DOI: 10.58210/nhyg592

Resumen

This article tries to understand how tourism carried out in Europe in the mid-19th century, after the impact of the Industrial Revolution, through the travel experience of a Peruvian Pedro Paz Soldán y Unane. The primary source was his book "Memories of a Peruvian Traveler Notes and Memories of Europe and the East (1859-1863)" and other contemporary sources, from which a hermeneutical analysis was made that allowed to know the cultural heritage of some European cities and the service offered to tourists in 1861. A time when the advent of railways, steamboats, and stagecoaches connected Europe, making travel more dynamic and faster.

Instituciones: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos