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March Tour News

Hi from Rick: A Uniquely Rick Steves Experience

I just got home from our annual guide-mentoring tour in Italy — a week of hands-on experiences, designed to teach our newest hires how to lead a Rick Steves tour.

Imagine: 20 tour guides, gathered on a piazza, assembling themselves into a human cathedral. To create a perfect Gothic structure, you need 13 people: six columns, stretching their arms out to meet at pointed arches; six flying buttresses behind those columns, to reinforce the structure, while opening up space for giant windows; and, of course, a glorious human spire to top it all off.

For decades, I've been using this "human cathedral" method with my tour members (just before they step into their first Gothic cathedral) to help them better appreciate the glory of the High Middle Ages. And now, it's my joy to teach this approach to our newest crop of tour guides… Read more

In this issue


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Slideshow: Athens & the Heart of Greece, Day by Day

The Rick Steves Athens & the Heart of Greece tour is an odyssey of time-travel thrills, from Athens' majestic Acropolis to the must-see ancient sites of Delphi, Olympia, Epidavros, and Mycenae… Read more


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Magic Moments in Greece

Greece will surprise you at every turn with its ancient monuments, incomparable sites, delicious food, and laid-back lifestyle — it's truly magical. But don't take our word for it… Read more


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Meet a Trio of Greece Guides

Over in the corner of Europe, Greece seems to spin on its own cultural carousel. Tradition and community, hard times and good times, calloused hands and ruddy smiles — there's no better way to experience Greece… Read more


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Mysterious Mycenae

Join Rick as he digs into ancient Greece's Mycenae, a hilltop fortress on the Peloponnesian Peninsula that dominated the Greek world between 1600 and 1200 BC, a thousand years before the rise of Athens… Watch the video


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June Seats on Sale

Want to squeeze in a trip to Europe before the summer rush? Save up to $300 on select departures for our Greece, Village Italy, Sicily, Heart of France, Eastern France, and 21-day Best of Europe tours… Browse tours


Celebrating Europe Through the Back Door

Join Rick March 25 for a Monday Night Travel party cataloging how travel has evolved over his career. Next up in April, we'll feature the villages of Umbria and surprising Budapest… Register