Portugal Ecovillage Tour

10 DAYS | Max group size: 16

Discover the magic of Portugal, a global hotspot for intentional living.

Portugal is a world-renowned travel destination known for its sunny weather, rich history, and vibrant culture. It has also become a favorite place for ecoprojects that explore how community living can enhance quality of life and contribute to environmental regeneration.

This thoughtfully curated journey includes visits to inspiring ecovillages—among them the internationally recognized peace research center, Tamera—as well as initiatives focused on revitalizing rural communities and landscapes.

Along the way, you’ll enjoy Portugal’s breathtaking scenery, delicious local foods, and diverse cultural heritage while discovering innovative approaches to regenerative living, rural renewal, ecological restoration, cooperative economics, and community building. Whether you’re curious about joining a community or seeking inspiration for your own sustainable path, this tour offers unforgettable experiences and meaningful connections.

We are thrilled to welcome back guides, Catarina and Mikey, to lead the second annual Portugal Ecovillage Tour!

Portugal Ecovillage Tour

Next tour dates:

April 30-May 9, 2026

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Tour Highlights

What you can expect to experience during your time in Portugal.

Explore 6+ inspiring ecovillages and rural initiatives

Portugal is a hub for intentional communities, offering a rich tapestry of sustainable living models. From the globally renowned Tamera to emerging ecovillages, you’ll gain firsthand insights into how these communities thrive—and perhaps find one that feels like home.

Experience sustainability and connection

Engage with permaculture practices, regenerative agriculture, and innovative social structures through hands-on workshops and meaningful conversations with residents who are living their vision of a better future.

Savor Portugal’s natural and cultural beauty

From the sun-drenched Alentejo region to the verdant valleys of Serra da Estrela, immerse yourself in the beauty of Portugal’s landscapes, local cuisine, and vibrant traditions that make this country a global leader in quality of life.

Featured Communities

Explore the communities we’ll visit on the trip. Subject to change.

Tamera

Location: Alentejo region, Southwestern Portugal

Land: 134 hectares

Accepting new members: Yes

Website: tamera.org

Tamera is a well-established peace research village that serves as a model for sustainable living and social cooperation. Founded in 1995, it focuses on creating a harmonious relationship between humans, nature, and animals. The community is known for its innovative approaches to social structures and ecological practices, including extensive tree planting and water management systems. With approximately 160 residents, Tamera conducts research on free love principles and alternative economic models while offering educational programs to promote nonviolent cooperation and ecological regeneration.

Traditional Dream Factory

Location: Near Lisbon

Land: 4 hectares

Accepting new members: Yes

Traditional Dream Factory is a community project that blends traditional knowledge with contemporary sustainable practices. It focuses on natural building techniques, permaculture principles, and holistic living. They are especially known as the first European DOA (Decentralized Autonomous Organization), utilizing blockchain technology in their decision making and organizational structure. They embrace co-working for nomadic residents and guests. They even have created their own digital currency of TDF tokens to fund their project.

Ananda Kalyani

Location: Near Serra da Estrela Nature Reserve, Central Portugal

Land: 50 hectares

Accepting new members: Yes

Ananda Kalyani is a vibrant ecovillage situated in a lush green valley, dedicated to sustainable living and personal development. Established in 2012, the community has transformed an abandoned area into a thriving habitat that emphasizes organic farming, yoga, and meditation. The site features wild forests, a beautiful river, and certified organic agricultural land. Ananda Valley actively collaborates with local associations to promote art, culture, and sustainable practices while hosting various workshops and events aimed at fostering community engagement and ecological awareness.

Spirala Ecological Village

Location: Idanha-a-Nova, Central Portugal

Land: 10 hectares

Accepting new members: Yes

Spirala Ecological Village is a community-driven project that began in 2020 with the goal of fostering sustainable living and authentic connections among residents. The village offers long-term accommodations while hosting workshops, events, and festivals focused on eco-friendly practices. Spirala emphasizes collaboration with nature and neighbors, providing a space for shared meals, knowledge exchange, and cultural activities. The community aims to create an inclusive environment where individuals can explore alternative lifestyles while engaging in meaningful interactions.

SerVivo

Location: Palmela, South Portugal

Land: 10 hectares

Accepting new members: Yes

Website: servivo.earth

SerVivo is an intentional community and learning space rooted in the rhythms of nature, creative collaboration, and embodied exploration. Nestled in the valley of the Arrábida Natural Park, it hosts a wide range of activities that integrate ecological living with movement-based practices. At its heart, SerVivo nurtures community through dance, contact improvisation, and somatic movement—approaches that invite awareness, connection, and presence. Alongside natural building, shared meals, and ecological stewardship, SerVivo offers a space where movement becomes a form of regeneration—cultivating vitality, creativity, and belonging among all who take part.

Centro Co.Re

Location: São Luís, Southwest Alentejo, Portugal

Accepting new members: Yes

Website: co-re.info

Centro Co.Re is a rural learning centre dedicated to regenerating, reactivating, rejuvenating, and reconnecting landscapes, communities, and people. Rooted in the Transition Village of São Luís, Co.Re hosts immersive programs, retreats, workshops, and residencies that explore regenerative agriculture, collaborative economies, ecological leadership, systems thinking, and agroecological living deeply tied to place and prioritising youth capacitation. Co.Re acts as a living laboratory for rural regeneration, where informal education, community culture, and environmental care intertwine to transform the present and imagine resilient futures.

Trip Details

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Included

  • All ground transportation from tour start and end point

  • All lodging in shared rooms (Private surcharge for single room upgrade)

  • All meals, except when you choose to eat separately or purchase extra drinks

  • All entrance and tour fees

Not Included

  • Transportation to/from country

  • Insurance of any kind

  • Alcoholic beverages (except during wine tours)

  • Optional gratuities to guides

  • Laundry fees and items of a personal nature

Pricing

Click “Book Now” to see current pricing and available discounts. Payment plans available. Pricing subject to change, but your rate is guaranteed with your deposit. All prices listed in USD.

  • $1,999 + $500 deposit Super early bird through Jan 5, 2026 (save 20%)

  • $2,249 + $500 deposit Early bird through Mar 1, 2026 (save 10%)

  • $2,524 + $500 deposit Normal price

Travel Planning

Flights

We recommend booking a flight that arrives at the Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS) in Lisbon, Portugal. The better deals are often found in advance so we encourage you to book as soon as possible.

Start

Our tour will begin at 2pm local time on the start date at the Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS). Please plan to arrive by 2pm or earlier that day, in order to be picked up at the airport along with the rest of the group.

End

Our tour will will end back at the Humberto Delgado Airport (LIS) where the journey began. We will arrive in the afternoon on the last day of the tour, so participants can book a flight out anytime that day after 3pm local time or we can drop you off at a nearby location.

Weather

The Portugal Ecovillage Tour takes place during early summer, a wonderful time to explore the country's vibrant landscapes and ecovillages.

Expect warm and sunny days, with average daytime temperatures ranging from 24°C to 30°C (75°F to 86°F), with possibility to experience up to 40ºC (104°F).

Evenings are generally mild, with temperatures around 15°C to 20°C (59°F to 68°F), making it comfortable for outdoor activities.

Packing

A full packing list will be provided after booking the tour. Laundry service will be available at some of our locations. We ask that you only bring a day pack and one carry-on sized luggage due to limited space in our vehicle.

We recommend packing breathable clothing, a sun hat, sunscreen, and comfortable walking shoes to stay cool and enjoy the tour's immersive experiences under the Portuguese sun. Please pack a light scarf (for coverage from the sun and to dip in cold water.) Don’t forget your bathing suit for swimming!

Meet Your Guides

Embark on your journey with confidence – get to know your experienced guides.

Catarina Rosa

Catarina is Lisbon-born and raised between rural Alentejo, the ocean and the tallest mountains. She has worked as a tour guide since 2017, sharing her deep knowledge of Portugal’s history and landscapes while engaging curious travelers to explore new contexts with knowledge and awareness. Beyond guiding, Catarina has a decade of experience as a dancer and teacher, exploring urban, traditional, and contemporary dance forms. She has performed and taught across Europe and Asia, and co-organized the Orchidaceae Dance Intensive in Lisbon, an annual gathering attracting students from around the world. 

  • Catarina has been working with a diverse array of community and environmental projects as communications manager and content creator. She’s an activist and co-founder of the Dunas Livres environmental association, focused on awareness and citizen participation in territory management. She is a core team member of the Ecoversities Alliance, supporting alternative education and regenerative livelihoods globally. As a facilitator and art-educator, she highlights EVOLVE, an embodied experience integrating art and science through movement workshops that connect participants with nature and our evolutionary history. She is now back to school in a PhD program on sustainability, with a project dedicated to the role of ecovillages in their bioregions, and is taking her first steps as a vegan activist.

    Catarina’s diverse passions, from translating across three languages to organizing intentional events, make her a dynamic and inspiring guide for participants on an Ecovillage Tour.

Mikey Talpalar

Mikey is a musician, facilitator and event producer with a great emphasis on getting people together and creating meaningful connections. As a facilitator, Mikey aims to nurture human connections in group settings through integrated participatory methodologies. His facilitation experience started young with leading and guiding groups of children and youth in summer camps, and is growing to animating musical workshops and facilitating workshops in all sorts of contexts, focused on personal development and group dynamics.

  • As a musician, Mikey uses voice, guitar, and electronic instruments through live looping and sampling. He often incorporates voices of the audience, as part of his duo project À La Loop - something between a performance and a workshop, the duo record and sample the audience to create a track of music that is unique and exclusively ephemeral. giving people a special experience with the opportunity to hear themselves and express themselves in a new way and to create together, this leads to empowerment of the individuals and of the groups they have worked with. playing in various contexts, such as youth movement conferences, seminars for community leaders, team-building workshops, as well as street-performance.

    He is part of BONA, an artistic collective for community event production who share skills for producing events and establishing connections between people. The resulting events, such as parties or festivals, are collectively created among BONA members and the local community of unexpected urban locations. Their main focuses are community, a sense of unity, and artistic creation, particularly emphasising music and visual art. BONA have developed methodologies to integrate groups to the location, to dream together, to be beneficial to the place and to the local community all through fun and interactive events. The collective organises about six events annually, each with a different group or community.

Reviews

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Ecovillage Tours delivered far more than a sightseeing trip – they curated an experience that widened my view of what’s possible when vision, community, and land meet. Every stop resonated deeply: from the sun-baked innovation at Traditional Dream Factory to the seasoned wisdom of Tamera, the defiant green oasis of Terra Sintrópica, and the majestic reinvention happening in Vale das Lobas, and many more. Each project showed a different facet of regenerative living, and together they formed a powerful mosaic of hope. But it was the people who made the week unforgettable. Our guides – Catarina and Mikey – their passion was contagious; their candour, grounding. Equally inspiring were my fellow travellers. In vans, over communal meals, and even while dancing in dusty parking lots, we opened our hearts, wrestled with big questions, and held space for each other’s tears and laughter. I came away feeling part of a growing tribe determined to heal our planet and our relationships. I’m returning home encouraged, tender, and grateful, committed to weaving the love, courage, and practical wisdom I witnessed into my own community work. If you long for authentic connection and tangible examples of a better future, give yourself the gift of this tour. It will stay with you long after your bags are unpacked.

—Jeppe L.

Our trip with Caterina and Mikey, the guides, was an unforgettable experience. Their professionalism, sensitivity, and human warmth created an amazing group, and the diverse and successful selection of the places we visited allowed us all to learn and enjoy every moment. Special thanks to Eco Village Tours and Cynthia for the perfect organization and for addressing every request.

Hagai A.

The trip was amazing. The tour guides, Catarina and Mikey were exceptional and you could feel their love and care for the purpose of the tour and our group. We saw a huge variety of places that ranged from new to established ecovillages and other places of community and methods of taking care of the earth. The food we had throughout the trip was amazing and opened up an entire world to my eyes of delicious vegan and vegetarian food. Catarina organized two meals that were real VIP level of attention and cuisine, but all with the feelings of family and joy! Our lodging throughout the trip was exceptional. When we weren't staying at the community we were visiting for the day, we stayed at lovely local places. Two beautiful farmhouses and another place that was renovated into exceptional rooms! No one can control the people that go along on a trip, but our group was full of amazing souls and the energy between us all was supportive, fun, and caring! We definitely felt like our own community and family soon after we started our journey. I can't rave enough about Catarina and her energy and spirit throughout the trip! Her enthusiasm, knowledge an love of her country shown through every day. You could tell that everyone we met that she had known for many years or only a few months, appreciated her and the joy she brings with her! I would recommend this trip 100% to people!

Melanie S.

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Is this tour right for me?

On the fence? Discover if this tour is meant for you.

Choosing to embark on an ecovillage tour is an investment in your journey into intentional community living. Thanks to years of relationship building with community founders, we’re able to give you an experience that’s simply not available to the regular traveler.

Still unsure?

Explore if this tour is right for you…

This tour ideal for those who want to:

  • Join intentional communities: Engage directly in projects that focus on environmental and social regeneration, creating vibrant, sustainable spaces for communal living.

  • Explore sustainable living: Dive into the world of ecovillages as a lifestyle choice, integrating principles of ecological balance and community harmony into your daily life.

  • Network with regeneration leaders: Forge deep connections with key figures in the regenerative movement, gaining inspiration and momentum to advance your life's purpose.

  • Get a true eco-vacation: Embark on adventure travels that support ecovillages, choosing experiences that contribute positively to the planet and align with your values.

  • Learn from successful projects: Observe and study the approaches of others, applying their strategies and innovations to develop your own land or community initiative effectively.

Why choose this tour?

Knowledgeable guides: Led by experts in ecovillages and intentional communities.

Authentic experience: We partner with local communities for a genuine and unfiltered experience.

All-inclusive: From eco-friendly lodging to local cuisine, we've got you covered.

Small group size: We limit the number of participants to ensure a personalized and intimate experience.

Hassle free travel: We cover all the logistics, so you can get the most out of the experience.

What’s the alternative?

You could try visiting intentional communities on your own, except that…

  • Many communities are not open to the public and, if they are, the founders will not give you their undivided attention as a just normal passer-through.

  • Figuring out the logistics of getting yourself around the country is a headache and you’ll have no immediate support if something goes awry.

  • Traveling alone isn’t as nourishing or nearly as fun journeying with a small group in an intentionally held container for connection.

  • It’ll take years of relationship building and financial investment to even come close to the experience that Ecovillage Tours is able to offer… because we’ve done all that work for you already!

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