Travel with Rick Steves
Travel with Rick Steves
Rick Steves
827 The Grand Tour; Touring Today; Sagrada Família 2026
52 minutes Posted Apr 4, 2026 at 12:00 am.
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The Grand Tour was a rite of passage for the aristocracy, and the adventuresome spirit behind it lives on in modern European itineraries. A longtime travel publisher traces the evolution of this fantastic voyage. Then Rick Steves' Europe guidebook researcher Cameron Hewitt takes a look back on the ways travel has evolved over the past quarter century. And as the Sagrada Família stretches ever closer toward completion, one of the project's architects helps us understand what Gaudí's ambitious creation means to Barcelona and Catalonia.