Life in Barcelona is a distinctive mix of Madrid-style love of life and Parisian elegance and taste. Spain’s second-biggest city is one of the hottest tourist destinations in Europe these days, with ...

If you're in the mood to surrender to a city's charms, let it be in Barcelona. Life bubbles in its narrow old town alleys, grand boulevards, and elegant modern district. While Barcelona has an ...

It's hard to top Barcelona, Spain's most cosmopolitan and fun city. I love the place, but I'm not alone. Every year, 10 million visitors swoop into town, rambling the Ramblas, touring hidden corners ...

If you’re in the mood to surrender to a city’s charms, let it be in Barcelona. Life bubbles in its narrow old town alleys, grand boulevards, and elegant modern district. While Barcelona has an ...

Sagrada Família, under construction since 1883 in Barcelona, Spain, is the culmination of Antoni Gaudí s wildly creative Modernista style. Dominic Arizona Bonuccelli, Rick Steves' Europe Life in ...

Barcelona is Spain's second city and the capital of the proud and distinct region of Catalonia -- Catalunya in the local language. With Francisco Franco's fascism now long gone, Catalonia's creative ...

It’s hard to top Barcelona, Spain’s most cosmopolitan and fun city. But it’s still worth considering at least one of several temping, scene-changer day trips from Barcelona: the mountaintop monastery ...

NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with travel writer and host Rick Steves about "overtourism" — when some locales prove too popular — and how not contribute to it. Summer travel season is ready to take off.