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…
Intentional Communities
From Tamera's decades-old peace research village to Traditional Dream Factory's regenerative village-in-the-making, Portugal is a European hub for intentional community. Most welcome visitors, volunteers and new members.
Projects in this focus
Project Kamp
Project Kamp is a research community near Santa Comba Dão, Portugal, prototyping sustainable building, energy and food systems and sharing e…
Quinta Travancinha
Quinta Travancinha is an intentional community on an 11-hectare property near Travancinha, Guarda, built up since 2015 around shared living,…
Eco Vale Feridouro
Eco Vale Feridouro is a collective living in Feridouro, Águeda, dedicated to holistic regeneration of land, people and ecosystems around the…
The Riverside Community
The Riverside Community is a grassroots family project in Central Portugal dedicated to land restoration, eco-building, and creating a self-…
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…
O Fojo Permaculture | Integral Education Center
O Fojo, founded in 2009, is one of the first permaculture projects in central Portugal. It is now growing into an Integral Education Center …
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…
The Hide PT
The Hide PT is a co-living and retreat centre in a secluded valley near Oleiros, Central Portugal, with space for creatives, remote workers …
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…
Intentional communities in Portugal
An intentional community is a group of people who chose each other and wrote down how they will live together. In Portugal that covers a very wide range: Tamera in the Alentejo has been running peace and water research for decades, while Traditional Dream Factory is building a regenerative village around remote work and shared ownership.
The practical questions are the same everywhere (who owns the land, how decisions get made, what happens when someone leaves) and every community answers them differently. Reading the answers is most of the work of choosing one.
Project pages show whether a community takes visitors, volunteers or new members. Start with the project pages here, then look at the ecovillage and cooperatives focuses for the neighbouring models. Dated activities from these projects are listed in our events calendar.