Meet Cesare the Coppersmith
1:00 01/01/1970
Cesare, the coppersmith of the Tuscan hill town of Montepulciano, is a proud old artisan with a spirit as strong as the oak-tree root upon which his grandfather’s anvil sits. For Cesare, every day...
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Cooking in Florence on a Rick Steves Tour
1:00 01/01/1970
With so many travelers into food these days, food tours and cooking classes have become a big deal all over Europe. And a cooking class is a perfect example of how we, as part of our bus tours,...
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Eating in Florence
1:00 01/01/1970
Bobo runs one of my favorite Florence restaurants, Antica Trattoria da Tito, with attitude. And sometimes that attitude puts off my readers. But once you embrace Bobo’s devil-may-care flair for fun...
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White Night in Florence
1:00 01/01/1970
With my work, I rarely plan to be anywhere for a local festival. But when one hits, I make it a point to enjoy it. In Florence, the night before May Day is a huge blowout called White Night. All …...
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Florence Discoveries
1:00 01/01/1970
I’ve noticed in Venice, Rome, and Florence that the traditional economy is being pushed out by the playground economy that comes with modern affluence. In old, historic city centers, as rents go...
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Tripe in Florence’s Central Market (warning: graphic scenes and bloody private parts)
1:00 01/01/1970
One of the great sights in Florence, along with all the must-see museums, is the Mercato Centrale. The Central Market is thriving with traditional market stalls and competitive little eateries. At...
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You’ll Feel Rome’s Lively Pulse in Its Fun Monti Neighborhood
1:00 01/01/1970
The fun and lively new hot spot in Rome is the Monti neighborhood. I just spent a couple of nights there exploring and enjoying restaurants — all in the name of guidebook research. If you don’t...
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Roman Discoveries
1:00 01/01/1970
Crowds are a huge, huge thing at many major sights, including here at Rome’s Vatican Museums. Emerging economies in large parts of our world are creating big middle-class populations with enough...
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Rick Steves Audio Europe: An Ancient Seduction in Athens
1:00 01/01/1970
Warning: This video includes ancient nudity and general horniness! Along with updating my guidebooks when I travel, I enjoy giving my audio tours a “road test”. My audio tour co-author Gene...
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Athens — Great Food, Big Economic Questions, and Hair on Fire
1:00 01/01/1970
Every year it seems I go to places partly because naive and gullible Americans, whose worldview is fed by a diet of hysterical commercial TV news, are avoiding those places for supposed safety...
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