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Podcast: Travel with Rick Steves
Episode: 827 The Grand Tour; Touring Today; Sagrada FamÃlia 2026
Description: 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 FamÃlia stretches ever closer toward completion, one of the project's architects helps us understand what GaudÃ's ambitious creation means to Barcelona and Catalonia.
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