Horta das Laranjas
Horta das Laranjas is a local accommodation and personal textile art / vegetable garden project in the centre of Serpa, Alentejo, born from …
Education & Eco-tourism
Places where you learn by staying: the educational programmes of Novas Descobertas, the edible botanical garden Orchard of Flavours, and revived villages like Cerdeira in the Serra da Lousã. Workshops, nature-based learning and tourism that gives more than it takes.
Projects in this theme
Rota Vicentina
Rota Vicentina is a non-profit association managing a 750 km walking and over 1000 km cycling trail network along Portugal's Southwest coast…
Figueirinha Ecoturismo
Figueirinha Ecoturismo is a sustainable rural tourism property near Odemira, Alentejo, offering accommodations amid cork oak forests and oli…
Rio-A-Dentro
Rio-A-Dentro organizes nature boat tours on the Tagus River near Lisbon, using environmentally friendly boats to explore wildlife, wild Lusi…
Associação Margem Esquerda do Guadiana (AMEG)
AMEG is a nonprofit environmental association dedicated to raising awareness of the natural heritage along the left bank of the Guadiana riv…
Vida Pura
Vida Pura is an eco-friendly retreat centre near Odeceixe in southwest Portugal, operating on solar energy, harvested water, and biodynamic …
Re.Rural – Centro Co.Re
Re.Rural – Centro Co.Re is a Rural Learning Centre based in the Transition Village of São Luís, Odemira, dedicated to regenerating rural com…
Learning and eco-tourism in Portugal
The projects here teach by having you turn up. Some run formal courses; others simply put you in a place where the thing is being done and let you help.
Novas Descobertas runs educational programmes. The Orchard of Flavours is an edible botanical garden you can walk through. Cerdeira, a schist village in the Serra da Lousã brought back from near-abandonment, houses workshops and residencies. Between them sit farm stays, skill workshops, school programmes and documentary work.
Use the focus filter for sustainable tourism, workshops and trainings, eco-tourism and experiential learning, nature-based learning, community education, sustainability in schools, DIY skills and guides, online courses and resources, and storytelling and documentaries. Dates for anything running soon are on our events calendar rather than here, this page lists the projects, the calendar lists what they have coming up.