If any European capital knows how to enjoy the good life, it’s Vienna. Compared to most modern urban centers, the pace of life here is slow. Locals linger over pastry and coffee at cafés. Concerts and ...

At Vienna’s Hofburg Palace complex, ground zero of the Habsburg Empire, I’m particularly entertained by its butterfly house, a tropical wonderland on the Danube. In this community of royal butterflies ...

Rick Steve's is taking his passion for European culture to new heights with a sprawling, multi-national adventure that you ...

As we’ve had to postpone our travels because of the pandemic, I believe a weekly dose of travel dreaming can be good medicine. Here’s one of my favorite European memories from Vienna — a reminder of ...

Back in the summer of 1969, I took my first trip to Europe. My father, a piano importer, brought me to Vienna’s Bösendorfer piano factory. Together, my dad and I watched the world’s finest pianos ...