Mata Nacional do Bussaco
Mata Nacional do Bussaco stewards the Buçaco National Forest, a centuries-old woodland in Luso, Portugal, offering guided tours and artisana…
Centro
Schist villages, serra forests and some of the country's most hands-on regeneration work: MONTIS restoring native woodland, ecovillages like Quinta do Vale da Páscoa and Loura, carbon-negative building at Cânhamor, and revived places like Cerdeira in the Serra da Lousã. Central Portugal is where land is affordable and the work is visible.
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iNature – Turismo de Natureza
iNature is a nature tourism network covering 12 classified natural areas in Central Portugal, with trails, accommodation and outdoor experie…
Aldeias do Xisto
Aldeias do Xisto is a territorial network of 28 schist villages in central Portugal, managed by ADXTUR, offering sustainable tourism, nature…
Bambual Portugal
Bambual Portugal is a publishing house in Arruda dos Vinhos that focuses on books about regeneration, sustainability, ancestral wisdom and a…
Inland Portugal
A licensed travel agency running slow, small-group trips through Portugal's rural interior, where travellers meet artisans and farmers and v…
Casa das Palmeiras
Casa das Palmeiras is a sustainable rural tourism farmhouse in Gandufe, Mangualde, in the Serra da Estrela, with a pedagogical farm, animal-…
Sterna - Aveiro Ria Tours & Birdwatching
Sterna is a nature tourism company running silent, solar-powered boat tours and birdwatching trips across the Ria de Aveiro. Its trips pair …
Isatour Ecotourism
Isatour is a Biosphere-certified provider of rural accommodation and tourist activities in Adsamo, Vouzela, inside the Vouga-Caramulo Natura…
Sementes - Núcleo de Capacitação Pessoal e Comunitária
Sementes is a Centre for Support to Home Education (Centro de Apoio ao Ensino Doméstico) in Torres Novas. It offers children of mixed ages a…
Pé Descalço
Pé Descalço is a nature-based learning centre in Porto de Mós, Portugal, offering school visits, traditional workshops, weekly community gat…
Quinta das Relvas
Quinta das Relvas is a non-profit NGO on a historic farm in Branca, Portugal, running non-formal education in the arts and sustainability th…
Terramadome
A 7-hectare organic, experimental farm near Penamacor, Beira Baixa, with self-built eco-friendly accommodation, workshops on natural constru…
Ananda Kalyani
Ananda Kalyani is a spiritual based project focused on rural development in Serra da Estrela region, central Portugal, founded more than 10 …
Quinta do Vale da Páscoa (Ecoaldeia do Vale)
Quinta do Vale da Páscoa is a sustainable luxury B&B and working farm in Póvoa de Midões, Tábua, in central Portugal. Eco-accommodation sits…
Cerdeira - Home for Creativity
Cerdeira - Home for Creativity is a revived historic schist village in the Serra da Lousã, with EU Eco-Label-certified accommodation, arts a…