
Rick Steves' Europe
Monuments of Venice, Italy; cruising the Grand Canal; masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance.

Monuments of Venice, Italy; cruising the Grand Canal; masterpieces of the Venetian Renaissance.

Europe's Neoclassical buildings of columns and domes; dramatic Romantic paintings; castles.

Hiking through the Cumbria Lake District; cricket; hiking Hadrian's Wall; Durham Cathedral.

Rome's St. Peter's, Bernini statues and fountains; canvases of Rubens in Belgium; Versailles.

Royal tombs in Westminster Abbey; British Library; Churchill's secret World War II headquarters.

Lacy architecture and ethereal paintings by El Greco in Spain and Portugal; Durer and Jan van Eyck.

Cruising the River Seine; Napoleon's tomb; Louvre; shopping in Paris; Bastille Day celebration.

The "rebirth" of Florence is powered by Leonardo da Vinci, Rafael and Michelangelo.

Pisa y Lucca; a tipsy tower; Puccini.

Gothic cathedrals with colorful altarpieces, lacy stonework and radiant stained glass.

Michelangelo's "David"; Botticelli's "Birth of Venus"; Ghiberti's "Gates of Paradise."

Diverse art produced by early Europeans, from Christians to Muslims and Byzantines to Vikings.

The Trastevere district's historic Jewish Ghetto; churches.

Exploring ancient Roman cities, including their art, aqueducts, theaters and churches.

Bernini statues; St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican; Roman dinner; romantic nightspots.

Rome's supersized monuments, colorful mosaics and marble Caesars.

Rome's Colosseum and Pantheon; bike riding along the Appian Way; Roman engineering.

Tracing the rise of Greek culture; the Acropolis, Parthenon and Golden Age temples.

A reunited Berlin entertains more visitors than ever before.

Stone Age cave paintings, megaliths and mysterious goddesses.