Rick Steves is a popular public television host, a best-selling guidebook author, and an outspoken activist who encourages Americans to broaden their perspectives through travel. He is the founder and owner of Rick Steves' Europe, a travel business with a tour program that brings more than 30,000 people to Europe annually. Rick lives and works in his hometown of Edmonds, Washington, where his office window overlooks his old junior high school.
Rick observes Easter across Europe, from Carnival through Lent to Easter Sunday
Rick Steves travels back a century to learn how fascism rose and then fell in Europe
We marvel at Stone Age cave paintings, mighty megaliths, and mysterious goddesses.
The grand cities of ancient Rome’s vast empire and majestic churches of its fall.
Florence’s bold “rebirth” is powered by the genius of Leonardo, Rafael, and Michelangelo.
From Portugal to Germany, booming economies and new technologies produce exquisite art.
We marvel at Baroque’s over-the-top churches, palaces, bubbly fountains, and theatric art.
Shimmering Impressionist canvases by Monet and Renoir, plus Van Gogh, Gauguin and more.
Hamburg, Germany’s mighty port city has risen from the ashes of World War II
As the Ice Age glaciers melted, European civilization was born—and with it, so was art.
Europe spent 1000 years in its Middle Ages after Rome fell and rebounded Around A.D. 1000.