Cabril Eco Rural
Cabril Eco Rural is an eco-tourism and sustainable development project set in the village of Cabril, within the Peneda-Gerês National Park, …
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
Oriolus Ecotours
Oriolus Ecotours is a Porto-based ecotourism company offering guided birdwatching, wildlife and nature photography tours across the Douro an…
Quinta Lamosa
Quinta Lamosa is a pet-friendly eco-tourism property in Arcos de Valdevez, offering tree houses and bungalows within the Peneda-Gerês Nation…
Feel Sustainable
Feel Sustainable is a Portuguese project blending sustainability, Feng Shui and spirituality to design nature-based experiences, tourism str…
Cooperativa Ser Natureza
Cooperativa Ser Natureza is a project in Terroso, Póvoa de Varzim, dedicated to reconnecting people with nature and other species through ed…
TERRA Associação de Educação Integral do Minho
TERRA is a non-profit association in Alvarães, Viana do Castelo, offering nature-based, integral education for children through daily activi…
Ceiba Permacultura
Ceiba Permacultura is a permaculture education and consultancy initiative based in Vila Nova de Famalicão, Portugal, running courses, worksh…
Quinta do Luar
Quinta do Luar is a rural farm in Goujoim, Armamar, offering 100% organic family farming, eco-tourism, forest bathing (silvoterapia), and ar…
Bétula Studios
Bétula Studios is a sustainable rural accommodation in Montesinho Natural Park, near Bragança, featuring contemporary studios designed for l…
Bem da Terra
Bem da Terra is a sustainability education space in Portugal offering permaculture design, sensory walks, a food forest and workshops that r…
Raíz Circular
Raíz Circular is a sustainability and circular economy consultancy based in Évora, Portugal, that guides organizations through diagnosis, st…
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.