Rick Steves' Europe

  • Premiered: Sep 2000
  • Episodes: 156
  • Followers: 22
  • Running
  • PBS
  • Unknown
  • Documentary Travel

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Season 2
2x1
Venice: Serene, Decadent, and Still Kicking
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Air date
Sep 07, 2002
Sorting through the monuments of magical Venice, we trace its decline from Europe's most powerful city to its most hedonistic. We cruise its main street - the Grand Canal - then get lost .. show full overview
2x2
Venice Side-Trips
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Air date
Sep 14, 2002
Pulling on hip boots, we settle into the muck of Venice, then take a speedboat tour of the lagoon. On the mainland, we head for Padua to tour a once-illegal anatomy theater and track the .. show full overview
2x3
Florence: City of Art
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Sep 21, 2002
In the birthplace of the Renaissance, we look into the eyes of Michelangelo's David and Botticelli's Venus, learn tricks for touring the Uffizi art gallery, and climb the dome that .. show full overview
2x4
Siena and Assisi: Italy's Grand Hill Towns
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Sep 28, 2002
In red-bricked Siena, we tour the town's innovative medieval hospital, lavish cathedral, and a bakery that makes panforte (like fruitcake, only delicious). Exploring the Chianti region, .. show full overview
2x5
Cinque Terre: Italy's Hidden Riviera
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Oct 05, 2002
In these five idyllic port towns, we sample village life: fishing for anchovies at midnight, savoring the best pesto, picking grapes, and cheering cliff divers as we hike the "walkway of .. show full overview
2x6
Amsterdam and Dutch Side-Trips
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Oct 12, 2002
Amsterdam stimulates all the senses, with Rembrandt's and stately architecture from its Golden Age, hidden churches and Holocaust memorials from its troubled times, and Van Gogh's and .. show full overview
2x7
Prague and the Czech Republic
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Oct 19, 2002
Newly energized Prague, slinky with sumptuous Art Nouveau facades, is perpetually playing Mozart and Vivaldi. Eastern Europe's top destination has Europe's best beer, biggest castle, .. show full overview
2x8
Dublin and Mystical Side-Trips
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Oct 26, 2002
Dublin's story is of feast and famine - from its 18th-century Golden Age to its 20th-century struggles for independence to its boomtime today. We explore the town's foreboding castle, .. show full overview
2x9
South Ireland: Waterford to the Ring of Kerry
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Nov 02, 2002
We find the icons of Ireland strewn along its fascinating south coast: Waterford's much-loved crystal factory; the Kennedy family homestead; the Dunbrody famine ship; and Kinsale's .. show full overview
2x10
The Best of West Ireland: Dingle, Galway, and the Aran Islands
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Nov 09, 2002
Deepest Ireland is best experienced on its west coast in Gaeltachts - where the people speak Gaelic and the rugged villages have changed little over the generations. After exploring the .. show full overview
2x11
Berlin: Resilient, Reunited, and Reborn
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Nov 16, 2002
Berlin is back, resuming its place as a great European capital. We climb the Reichstag's glass dome, sway at a modern-day cabaret, and pop a few chocolates in the now thriving eastern .. show full overview
2x12
Germany's Romantic Rhine and Rothenburg
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Nov 23, 2002
Cruising the Rhine River, we dodge riverboat traffic and the legendary Lorelei. After climbing castles and descending into dungeons, we relax with Rhine wine. We tour Burg Eltz-a .. show full overview
2x13
Munich and the Foothills of the Alps
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Nov 30, 2002
In Munich, where locals specialize in good living, we visit boisterous markets and go-for-Baroque palaces. while office workers surf in the Isar River. Heading into the foothills of the .. show full overview
2x14
Switzerland's Jungfrau Region: Best of the Alps
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Dec 07, 2002
If Heidi is alive, she's in this sky-high corner of the Swiss Alps, with cowbells ringing on breathtaking ridges. After settling into a traditional village where locals scythe hay by .. show full overview
2x15 Season finale
South Ireland: Waterford to the Ring of Kerry
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Air date
Feb 15, 2003
We find the icons of Ireland strewn along its fascinating south coast: Waterford's much-loved crystal factory, the Dunbrody Famine Ship, and Kinsale's star-shaped fortresses. After .. show full overview
2x15
Rick Steves' Castles & Mountains
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Nov 27, 2003
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