
Rick Steves' Europe
Pisa y Lucca; a tipsy tower; Puccini.

Pisa y Lucca; a tipsy tower; Puccini.

The tranquil isle of Iona; Staffa's puffin colony; Isle of Skye's Iron Age forts; Trotternish.

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

The Weeping Glen of Glen Coe; Inverness; the battlefield of Culloden; Stone Age burial grounds.

The Trastevere district's historic Jewish Ghetto; churches.

Fisherman's harbor in Cefalù; Capuchin crypt; agriturismo; a classic Sicilian banquet.

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

Palermo, Italy; the Romanesque cathedral of Monreale; Mount Etna; Greek temples at Agrigento.

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

April Fair in Seville, Spain; Bastille Day in Paris; running with the bulls; Munich's Oktoberfest.

The ancient Basque Country capital of Gernika; Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.

Siena, Italy's, Palio horse race; Scottish Highland Games; Carnevale in Italy; Easter in Greece.

Join Rick as we run with the bulls in Pamplona and hike to Santiago in northwest Spain.

Touring ancient Greek ruins, tracing the vestiges of the Crusades and sampling rustic cuisine.

Helsinki, Finland's Neoclassical town has a modern flair; two-hour boat ride to Tallinn, Estonia.

The ins and outs and pros and cons of cruising, including making smart use of limited time on shore.

Cultural highlights of Stockholm, Sweden's capital, include gourmet reindeer.

Nazaré, Portugal; medieval abbey in Batalha; royal library; port wine; exploring Porto, Portugal.

Sailing under towering fjord cliffs; hiking glaciers; Hanseatic heritage.

Cod, pastries and fado music in Lisbon, Portugal; castles of Portuguese royalty in Sintra.