Where did people in Europe spend their summer holidays in the Middle Ages?

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So in the Mediterranean?

adelaide196970 · Answer

Holiday trips like today were not usual at the time. Traveling was very cumbersome and expensive and therefore almost only reserved for the rich population. They drove into baths and spa resorts inland, if you could afford it. The poor people and most of them had no vacation and were happy when they had work and earned money.

derhans · Answer

Funny HOLIDAY is an achievement of the 20th century.

rockthekrokodil · Answer

Where did people in Europe spend their summer holidays in the Middle Ages? 95% spent him at home... at work

callidus89 · Answer

There was something like a holiday for probably 99.9% of the population.

koernchen79 · Answer

There was no holiday in the Middle Ages. Only the privileged have traveled around, but not necessarily for pleasure.

bratwurstgamer · Answer

In feudalist Europe there were no summer holidays. At that time one worked all year round in the field and the great working class had neither time nor money for such a journey. Europe was not yet urbanized and connected.

nofear20 · Answer

You love to joke. Vacation was an unknown word in the Middle Ages.

blindi56 · Answer

There were no vacations at all. It was worked as long as it was bright and throughout the year. Who didn't have to work because of wealth, etc., rode for hunting or for knight tournaments. Or they went to one of the many wars. What should you do on the Mediterranean? Baden was not common at all. If anything, traders moved around to get goods.

2desmond · Answer

Good question. So the Lord Goethe took the carriage down to Italy. One went to Canossa. And Ötzi didn't make it all.

sirkermit · Answer

Of which: https://www.ndr.de/geschichte/chronologie/geschichte-der-Badekultur-in-Norddeutschland,badekultur100.html

In 1793 the first German sea bath was founded with Heiligendamm. At least later, the first bathing sites are also created at the North Sea. The bathing operation becomes a social event quickly.
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Bathing in the sea as a pleasure of the nobility
This is the same as a sensation, because until then people had only known the bathing pleasures of the Romans and Greeks in baths built for it. The sea was considered uncanny and uncultivated, so not suitable for physical construction. But the recommendations of the doctors are gradually being implemented, and while they recommend sea baths as a healthy fountain for industrial workers, the nobility meets in the newly created sea baths due to social reasons. Because only the upper layer can afford these summer trips.

How should you travel? Only the rich upper layer had access and the money for a horse and also a carriage.

blindi56 · Answer

Charles the Great was a ruler. Warm sources already knew the Romans.

janaki · Answer

Summer? That was the campaign season - people have hit each other's skulls on field suits - if they didn't just go through the land with fire and/or mauding. You can call this, if you want, an early form of active vacation - but the definition would have You're quite exclusive...

eisenwind · Answer

Medieval Travel Simple people on pilgrimage around 1300 The concept of the holiday is still very new and came up only far after the beginning of industrialization, as initially the upper layer, then increasingly larger circles had the opportunity to travel further or longer. In Germany, for example, it was the migratory birds, which brought the youth together 100 years ago to discover nature, to take trips. Rich people have long been able to travel to Egypt. In the Middle Ages, people worked through the year without longer leisure time. Nevertheless, many people, even from the lower stalls, went to further pilgrimages, which often took many weeks. In Germany, for example, it was the Andex monastery, which welcomed 100,000 visitors in one year. The next further goal would be, for example, the still famous Way of St. James in Spain. But many wanted to go to Jerusalem once in their lives. It was not necessary to be rich, because one could rely on a well-developed infrastructure of pilgrimages, shelters (usually free for one night) and travel groups. The year of the medieval people was without holidays, but filled with countless Sundays and holidays, and the work compaction on today's scale was not yet possible. You worked all day until sunset, but there were many breaks, meals or times in which little had to be done. Apart from the very working weeks and months, this also applies to farmers. Travel was also carried out for the following reasons: Pilgrimages Visits to the larger city Tournaments and festivals, processions Market days Trade Monitoring of dignitaries Removals of the whole clan over long distances So the people of the Middle Ages had come out of their villages, even on a much smaller scale than today. People came to the Middle Ages mainly because from there they went by ship to the Holy Land or because of trade. There was no bathing holiday.

apt2nowhere · Answer

When you speak from the Middle Ages, you need to know that at that time there was still the physical property – just going to the south, it was not possible to think – you did not even get out of the village in the normal case

what you imagine was only reserved for the very rich and noble, so an exception