About us
Enriching, slow travel
Travelling with The Rural Collection is to touch the ethereal beauty of the Mediterranean countryside. It is about special moments, the dawn mist rising above rolling vineyards, birdsong in olive groves, rich soil crumbling through your fingertips and the taste of ripe summer fruit. We create experiences for people who share our passion for rural life, travel that lifts spirits long after your return.
A warm and passionate team
The Rural Collection is part of Raro Discovery, a close team of travel professionals brimming with a Mediterranean compulsion for hospitality. Each Raro traveller has a passion to pursue and we’ll make that central to your journey while revealing the Mediterranean’s most authentic lifestyle.
Rural Collections
Rustic
Bucolic
Village Life
Inspired by our passions
The Rural Collection is the personal passion of Carmine Ponticorvo, his family has cultivated a citrus orchard in Sorrento for generations. The views through fruit trees and olive groves, above the Amalfi coast, have been a lifelong inspiration. Carmine joined the Slow Food movement as a producer, to preserve the walnuts on the Sorrento Peninsula. He is an expert in luxury hospitality, but above all his passion is the natural beauty and authentic flavours of rural Italy which he loves to share with fellow ‘Raro travellers’.
