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Rick Steves' Europe is an American travel documentary television program created and hosted by Rick Steves. In each episode, he travels to the continent of Europe, documenting his experiences along the way. The show is produced by Oregon Public Broadcasting and distributed by American Public Television.
Steves also has a public radio travel show called Travel with Rick Steves (2005−present) and has authored numerous travel guides, the first of which was the popular Europe Through the Back Door. In 2006, he became a syndicated newspaper columnist, and in 2010, his company released a mobile phone application called "Rick Steves’ Audio Europe ...
Erfurt (German pronunciation: [ˈɛʁfʊʁt] ⓘ) [3] is the capital and largest city of the Central German state of Thuringia, with a population of around 216,000.It lies in the wide valley of the River Gera, in the southern part of the Thuringian Basin, north of the Thuringian Forest, and in the middle of a line of the six largest Thuringian cities (Thüringer Städtekette), stretching from ...
The oldest of three children raised by parents Richard Steves Sr., known as Dick, and June, who owned a piano import business in Edmonds, Steves first traveled abroad with his family at the age of 14.
The "Copperplate" map of London is an early large-scale printed map of the City of London and its immediate environs, surveyed between 1553 and 1559, which survives only in part. It is the earliest true map of London (as opposed to panoramic views , such as those of Anton van den Wyngaerde ).
their first map was published in 1936; the only maps produced by them during World War II (1939–1945) were war maps of Europe; until his death in 1958, the front cover stated "Produced under the direction of Alexander Gross"; [2] until 1962, the publication address was "28 Gray's Inn Road, Holborn, London";
Petersberg Citadel (German: Zitadelle Petersberg) in Erfurt, central Germany, is one of the largest and best-preserved town fortresses in Europe. [1] The citadel was built on Petersberg hill, in the north-western part of the old town centre from 1665, when Erfurt was governed by the Electorate of Mainz. [2]
Detail from John Rocque's Map of London, 1746. Mansell Street was named after a relative of William Leman, whose great-uncle, John Leman had bought Goodman's Fields earlier in the seventeenth century. [1] Alie Street ran along the western side, with Leman Street to the east, Prescot Street to the south, and Alie Street to the North.