Quinta dos 7 Nomes
Quinta dos 7 Nomes is an ecological cooperative founded in 2007 in Colares, Sintra, running a permaculture lab, an organic grocery shop, com…
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
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…
Colmeia62
Colmeia62 is a housing cooperative with collective land ownership in Zambujal, Mafra, developing an ecovillage rooted in permaculture and co…
Emaús Caminho e Vida Porto
Emaús Caminho e Vida Porto is a Porto-based community of the international Emmaus movement, founded by Abbé Pierre, where companions live to…
AlmaOhana
AlmaOhana is a cooperative community near Odemira, Portugal, that has spent years developing a homestead across two plots totalling over 88 …
Skanking Farmers
Skanking Farmers is an association based in Odemira, Alentejo, focused on regeneration and culture, known for organising a members' festival…
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,…
Monte do Aniche Eco Farm
Monte do Aniche Eco Farm is an off-grid, community-oriented permaculture project in rural Alentejo, Portugal, combining sustainable farming,…
Mosaic Village
Mosaic Village is a regenerative village and relational research centre near Odemira, Portugal, on 20 hectares of Alentejano hills, 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…
Terra de Paz
Terra de Paz is a community-building initiative creating a new model of rural village in Portugal for 20–40 families, rooted in ecological f…
The Riverside Community
The Riverside Community is a grassroots family project in Central Portugal dedicated to land restoration, eco-building, and creating a self-…
Sete Fontes
Sete Fontes is a 15-hectare off-grid permaculture project near Portalegre, Portugal, founded by Michel Siebenaller and Isabel Valente and no…
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 …
Vila Akoya
A tiny house village, glamping site and eco-campsite on the river Mira in southern Alentejo, combining permaculture, creative arts and commu…
Nowhere Desk
A rural coworking and co-living space in a stone farmhouse in Arcos de Valdevez, northern Portugal, where remote work goes alongside farming…
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. …
Tribodar
An eco-village in its early stages and a retreat centre in Nisa, Alentejo, offering eco-retreats, Kundalini yoga, agroforestry workshops and…
Vale Ondula
A permaculture living lab and eco-community on 3.6 hectares of forest in Sande, Northern Portugal. Two families and their volunteers are bui…
Aldeia Inclusiva
Aldeia Inclusiva is a non-profit association in Monção, Portugal, building a rural, nature-based community where people with disabilities ca…
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-sufficiency…
Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso
Unidos em Defesa de Covas do Barroso (UDCB) is a local association in northeastern Portugal that firmly opposes mining projects in the regio…
Planetiers
Planetiers is a global ecosystem and active community based in Lisbon, Portugal, connecting sustainable solutions with organizations and ter…
Arambha Eco Village
A permaculture project and intentional community on Madeira, founded in 2019, combining regenerative land practices, reforestation and agrit…
Sat Village
Sat Village is a small conscious eco-community being developed near Sintra and Ericeira, Portugal, rooted in sustainability, intentional liv…
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 …
Four Trees
Four Trees is a 1.5-hectare farm retreat near Gomes Aires, Alentejo, offering co-living, co-working, retreats, workshops and long-term stays…
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…
Servivo
SerVivo is a co-living community and event venue in the Natural Park of Arrábida, near Palmela, given over to human development through danc…
PurposeFlow Living
PurposeFlow Living is a regenerative living community and retreat centre in Pavia, Alentejo, Portugal, working on ecological restoration, we…
Traditional Dream Factory (TDF)
Traditional Dream Factory is turning a former poultry factory in Abela, Alentejo into a regenerative village that combines co-living, syntro…
Pure Portugal
Pure Portugal is a rural property listing platform with over 20 years behind it, connecting buyers with private sellers of quintas, smallhol…
A Quinta da Lage
A Quinta da Lage is an off-grid regenerative farm and intentional community in the South West Alentejo coastal natural park, offering co-liv…
Toca do Coelho
Toca do Coelho is a small open community farm and creative sanctuary in the hills near Alferce, in the Algarve, built on permaculture, self-…
Noma Village
Noma Village is a coliving and coworking space in Lagos, Algarve, for conscious digital nomads and remote workers looking for community, coa…
Cristaland Lagos
Cristaland Lagos is a conscious eco-community and event centre in the Algarve, Portugal, built around sustainable living, wellbeing and comm…
Tamera
Tamera is an international peace research and education centre founded in 1995 in Odemira, Alentejo, Portugal, where over 160 residents live…
Vegoa
Vegoa is a platform and registered association promoting sustainable, ethical and vegan living through community-building. Its flagship proj…
Nature of Life Foundation
The Nature of Life Foundation, registered in the Netherlands, is building a regenerative intergenerational community and educational ecosyst…
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…
Essência Nature Retreat
Essência is an off-grid, plant-based eco-village and healing centre in Aljezur, southern Portugal, with retreats, community living and natur…
O Cais - Eco Loja - Café - Comida
O Cais is an eco café, sustainable shop and community space in a 1765 building in Silves, beside the old Roman bridge. It serves plant-based…
Neos Life
Neos Life is a visionary village and retreat project on 1,000 acres in the Alentejo region of Portugal, developing an intentional community …
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.