摘要：This article brings a reflection on the act of travelling and the aesthetic experience that him is inherent. The initial hypothesis is that the massification of contemporary travels makes still the experience of the traveling-subject one more complex. For so much, it is passed through bibliographical, electronic inquiry and iconographic, two moments of the history of the travels: (i) eighteenth century, with the route of the grand tourists, when it travels was a resource for the search of knowledge and for the cultural and aesthetic formation, however his access was circumscribed to the cultural and economical elite; (ii) nineteenth century, with the iconographic registers and reports of the naturalist-traveling ones, which were in the American continent, guided for the scientific knowledge interest. It is still done, a distinction to the passage of the naturalists for Brazil in eighteenth century, demonstrating the ethnological character of these travels. Finally, the dimensions assumed by the act suggest the relevance of thinking of travelling contemporarily, subsidized by the technological advancement and about the mass access of the experiences of space dislocation.
