Before joining a Rick Steves tour, familiarize yourself with this one rule that keeps trips enjoyable for everyone and ...

Discover this helpful travel center, located less than an hour from Seattle, where you can get knowledge directly from Rick ...

Seven countries. One city. Rick Steves is teaming up with SC Philharmonic to bring a night of music, travel & history to Columbia, South Carolina at the Koger.

Hamburg is Germany’s second-largest city and its most important port. Like other great European “second cities” – such as Marseille, Glasgow, and Antwerp – this northern port city has a special pride.

Getting close to one of the big icons of Western civilization – the Acropolis, the Palace of Versailles, the Colosseum – can be the spine-tingling high point of a European trip. But don’t paper ...

Steves is a realist when it comes to the cost of the average European vacation, but is the ultimate optimist about finding ways to save when you can. "Europe is expensive. Prices are high for ...

From Portugal to Germany, booming economies and new technologies produce exquisite art. From Italy, the Renaissance spread across Europe, revolutionizing art. We travel to Spain and Portugal where ...

EDMONDS, Wash. -- Travel writer and TV host Rick Steves said he is recovering from surgery after learning he has prostate cancer. Steves revealed his diagnosis in August. On Tuesday, the 69-year-old ...

Soaring Gothic cathedrals of radiant stained glass, plus art celebrating worldly pleasure. As Europe passed A.D. 1000, its growing prosperity was reflected in soaring Gothic cathedrals graced with ...

If you want to get away from it all when traveling in Greece, head for the Peloponnesian Peninsula. Driving about an hour west of Athens, you cross over the Corinth Canal – a four-mile-long shipping ...

Sunny, out-of-the-way Languedoc stretches from the Mediterranean to the Pyrenees in southwest France. It shares a balmy ...