Guarda Rios Ecovillage
Guarda Rios Ecovillage is a young ecovillage on 24 hectares beside the River Mondego, near Nelas, Viseu, started in 2022. Four resident memb…
Ecovillage
Quinta do Vale da Páscoa in central Portugal and communities like Loura show different stages of ecovillage life. In both, living together and reducing resource use are part of the same project.
Projects in this focus
Quinta Travancinha
Quinta Travancinha is an intentional community on an 11-hectare property near Travancinha, Guarda, built up since 2015 around shared living,…
Silveira Tech Re_generation Village
Silveira Tech is a regenerative village project reviving abandoned villages and 230 hectares of forest in Serra da Lousã, Portugal, combinin…
Eco Vale Feridouro
Eco Vale Feridouro is a collective living in Feridouro, Águeda, dedicated to holistic regeneration of land, people and ecosystems around the…
Mount of Oaks
Mount of Oaks (Monte dos Carvalhos) is a small, self-organising intentional community and permaculture farm on 5 hectares of terraced land n…
Eco Aldeia PERMALOGICA
Eco Aldeia PERMALOGICA is a family-led eco-project in Tábua, Portugal, working towards becoming a permaculture-based intentional community. …
Spirala Ecovillage
A regenerative camping site and eco-hub on 10.4 hectares in São Miguel de Acha, Castelo Branco District, offering community living, workshop…
Rewild the Future
An off-grid community and education hub in a forest valley in central Portugal, working on ecological restoration, Montessori-inspired learn…
Folha Verde / Benfeita Ecozone
A bilingual natural education project and intentional eco-community of more than 270 people in the mountains of Benfeita, central Portugal. …
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-sufficiency…
Live With Earth
Live With Earth is a Portuguese non-profit association, active since 2012 and formally founded in 2017, working on sustainable development a…
Vida em Transição
Vida em Transição is a family-run eco-project in Esculca, a village in the Serra do Açor, central Portugal, built around conscious living, p…
Living the Life Portugal
Living the Life Portugal is a family-run quinta near Figueiró dos Vinhos, where Tom, Ros and their children share their home, skills and kno…
Ecovillages in Portugal
Portugal has a long ecovillage history, shaped partly by ideas about community and partly by access to rural land. Some are decades old; others are still taking shape.
Quinta do Vale da Páscoa sits in the centre of the country. Loura is one of the newer communities still taking shape. What they have in common is that housing, food, water and decision-making are treated as one question rather than four.
Most publish their visiting terms (an open day, a work week, a trial period) on their own pages. If you are weighing up a move rather than a visit, the intentional communities and cooperatives focuses sit alongside this one. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.