Europe is a treasure trove for food-loving travelers. The culinary adventures are seemingly endless; you can hop the vineyards of Calabria, Italy's ancient land of wine one day, and then head west to ...

Spain has some unbelievably beautiful places to visit, from the gorgeous Retiro Park in Madrid, to the soaring towers of the Sagrada Familia in Barcelona, to the astonishing volcanic landscape of the ...

Boasting bucolic landscapes and mountain ranges, urban cities and a complex past, Rick Steves thinks this underrated European country should be on your radar.

It’s hard to top Barcelona, Spain’s most cosmopolitan and fun city. But it’s still worth considering a change of scenery through at least one of several tempting day trips from Barcelona: the ...

Perched on a high ridge, the impossibly quaint hobbit hamlet of O Cebreiro welcomes visitors to Galicia – a hilly, damp, green region in northwest Spain that feels vaguely Irish. O Cebreiro is a ...

In the nearly five decades Rick Steves has been traveling through Europe, the expert has seen almost every corner of this small but vibrant continent. Through his journeys, Steves has come across some ...

When my travel dreams drift off to Spain, they often include visions of Andalucía, the southern part of the country that feels so quintessentially Spanish. With a string of whitewashed hill towns, ...

On my last visit to Toledo, it seemed holier than ever: Dark El Greco clouds threatened overhead, stark against bright, clear horizons. Hail pelted the masses of people clogging the streets as they ...