Rainer Metzger

Rainer Travels

Rainer is a professional tour guide and architect. He is wild about Italy and Morocco and explores cultures through landscapes; urban and natural. Passionate about food and drink, he delves into living histories.

Rainer has led tours of Italy since 2002 with Rick Steves Europe, covering regions from the Dolomites to Rome to Sicily. In 2018 Rainer started Rainer Travels, a custom group travel company offering specialized experiences in Italy, connecting with his vast network of contacts. In 2019 Rainer also began a collaboration with Imprint Tours to organize trips to Morocco.

Rainer has a Master of Architecture and has studied and taught architecture in Rome and Seattle. This background is the basis for teaching his groups of travelers, moving through buildings and urban space, and learning how to read and understand the built environment around us.

When he isn’t leading tours around the world, Rainer lives in Seattle, WA and works in historic preservation with Seattle ARCH. Follow him on Instagram @rainer.metzger.