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Richard "Rick" Steves (born May 10, 1955) is an American author and television personality focusing on European travel.

He is the host of the American Public Television series Rick Steves' Europe, has a public radio travel show called Travel with Rick Steves and has authored numerous travel guides.

Walks of Italy is an American-owned and operated walking tour company specializing in Italy.

It was founded in 2008 by Jason Spiehler, tour guide and art historian with a master's degree from Yale in historical theology, and recommended by name in the New York Times travel section Jason and his organization have been featured in the Rick Steves guidebook series (esteemed writer of America's top-selling Europe guidebooks and a travel writer for CNN) on Rome, Italy & Best of Europe since 2009.

It was noted as a walking tour worth watching after its appearance at the 2010 Las Vegas Luxury Travel Expo.

The company offers an array of walking tours in the major tourist areas in Italy, as well as several off-the-beaten-path tours.

Fodor's is the world's largest publisher of English language travel and tourism information and the first relatively professional producer of travel guidebooks.

Fodor's Travel and Fodors.com are divisions of Random House, Inc.

Rome is a special comune (named Comune di Roma Capitale) and the capital of Italy.

Rome also serves as the capital of the Lazio region.

With 2,870,336 residents in, it is also the country's largest and most populated comune and fourth-most populous city in the European Union by population within city limits.

It is the center of the Metropolitan City of Rome, which has a population of 4.3 million residents.

The city is located in the central-western portion of the Italian Peninsula, within Lazio (Latium), along the shores of the Tiber.

The Vatican City is an independent country geographically located within the city boundaries of Rome, the only existing example of a country within a city: for this reason Rome has been often defined as capital of two states.

Venice is a city in northeastern Italy and the capital of the Veneto region.

It is situated across a group of 118 small islands that are separated by canals and linked by bridges.

These are located in the shallow Venetian Lagoon, an enclosed bay that lies between the mouths of the Po and the Piave Rivers.

Parts of Venice are renowned for the beauty of their settings, their architecture, and artwork.

The lagoon and a part of the city are listed as a World Heritage Site.