Hey, I'm Rick Steeves. For the last 15 years, our mission on travel

with Rick Steeves has been to stoke your travel dreams and to share inspiring

stories from every corner of our globe. While the world grapples with the pandemic of coronavirus, we understand

that trips are temporarily off the table for many of us. But we'll get through this, and we'll

keep on traveling when this crisis becomes old news.

Until then, let's use this time to stoke those travel dreams as we enjoy hearing from our

friends and experts about their adventures. If this crisis teaches us anything,

it's that we're all in this together, and it's important to get to know our neighbors.

Knowing Michelangelo's backstory can make his masterpieces come to life.

That's especially true when you get to see a statue of David in Florence.

But you sort of need to keep both aspects of the sculpture in mind, both the sort of

of perfection of it as a work of art, but also as a kind of civic patriotic symbol.

Coming up, Miles J. Unger shows us what Michelangelo's genius reveals about the Renaissance in Italy.

Actor David Suchet shares what he experienced filming a documentary about the

first century world of St. Paul and his travels.

One of the most exciting moments of the series on Paul

was when I found myself on the Appian way

realizing that the stones beneath my feet the a saint inspires some of Spain's best fiestas.

Most of the celebrations in Spain, national holidays, they advedated to Saints.

It's all just ahead on Travel with Rick Steves.

Whether you're looking at Michelangelo's magnificent statue of David, or you get caught up in a

raucous crowd at a street festival in Spain, or even if you just listen to the wind whisper

...