Rick Steves believes you can have a more authentic experience of Italian life staying at these rural Tuscan accommodations ...

Ravenna is on Italy’s tourist map for one reason: its 1,500-year-old churches decorated with best-in-the-West Byzantine mosaics. While locals go about their business, busloads of tourists slip ...

In his book “Travel as a Political Act,” Steves talks about getting out of your comfort zone and being open to new cultures, new idea, new food — a new way of living.

Rick Steves’ Europe: A Symphonic Journey airs 8 p.m. Thursday, April 3, on WCET-TV (Channel 48) and Dayton’s WPTD-TV (Channel 16). The entire show also is posted on the PBS website here.