There's a lot of hiking in Europe, but there's one country in particular that Rick Steves recommends for some of the best ...

A highlight of one of my European -summers was a day I spent hiking in the Swiss Alps, on a hillside above the Berner Oberland’s Lauterbrunnen Valley.

Join Rick Steves on an alpine adventure from Italy to Austria to Switzerland to France. In the thin-air "thriller" special, join Rick Steves on an alpine adventure from Italy to Austria to ...

Cameron Hewitt/Cameron Hewitt, Rick Steves’ E In Castelrotto, the church bells ring daily starting at 6 a.m. – to the comfort of locals and to the consternation of tourists.

Prior to 2021, however, Steves had largely overlooked one major side of European travel: the great outdoors. That changed in September when Steves went on a six-day trek through the French Alps.

The folk-singing group Kastelruther Spatzen — the ABBA of the Alps — is a gang of local boys who put Castelrotto on the map in the 1980s. They have a huge following here and throughout the ...