Quinta da Meia Eira
Quinta da Meia Eira is a rural guesthouse in Horta, Faial Island, Azores, set on a 60,000 m² property facing the Atlantic Ocean, combining f…
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
OTSA – Observatório do Turismo Sustentável dos Açores
OTSA is the Sustainable Tourism Observatory of the Azores, a non-profit association founded in 2006 by the Regional Government, the Azores T…
Retiro Atlântico
Retiro Atlântico is the first glamping site on São Jorge Island, Azores, set within a certified organic farm featuring Europe's largest coll…
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.