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
Colmeia62
Colmeia62 is a housing cooperative with collective land ownership in Zambujal, Mafra, developing an ecovillage rooted in permaculture and co…
AlmaOhana
AlmaOhana is a cooperative community near Odemira, Portugal, that has spent years developing a homestead across two plots totalling over 88 …
Quinta Travancinha
Quinta Travancinha is an intentional community on an 11-hectare property near Travancinha, Guarda, built up since 2015 around shared living,…
Marruge Ecovillage
Marruge Ecovillage is a rural regeneration project in a schist village in the Caramulo Mountains, blending regenerative agriculture, bioclim…
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…
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…
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…
Vila Akoya
A tiny house village, glamping site and eco-campsite on the river Mira in southern Alentejo, combining permaculture, creative arts and commu…
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…
Loural Ecovillage
Loural Ecovillage is a sustainable community and retreat centre in Colmeal, Góis, Portugal, working towards food and energy self-sufficiency…
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…
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…
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-…
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…
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 …
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.