Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Coimbra and Center, Portugal

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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Learn about permaculture with our family, surrounded by mountains in Gouveia, Portugal
We are a Portuguese couple with experience on Permaculture and self-sufficient-living that in 2015 got 15ha of abundant land in a beautiful valley and an amazing community at the highest mountains inside the biggest natural park of our country. ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Experience our sustainable off-grid life in Vila do Mato, Portugal
We’re looking for hardworking, enthusiastic and practical people to come and help us look after our land. We’re just a couple creating and maintaining our home, not a business, so the help is very much about sharing the work that comes with living ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Come hang out with our three dogs in Malhada do Cervo, Central Portugal
Hi, potential workawayer(s)! We're Ben & Louise, a young-ish Irish couple living in Central Portugal. As you may have guessed from our pictures, we're very much dog people and have three - Kacamak, Bambi, and Pippa (in descending order of size). ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Experience a growing non-profit community and help recover from wildfire in Benfeita, Portugal
We are the core community of this special land in Portugal — 11 founders who came together to invest in and care for this land. IT is 2-5 of us living here. Around us, volunteers join for shorter or longer stays, bringing their presence and energy ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Join our multi-generational family near Serra da Estrela, Portugal
***Currently seeking a couple of people to help on the olive harvest, last week of October would be ideal, it will be probably a week of picking olives with other small jobs in between including clay painting in the cabin**** Kids welcome! We ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Live off-grid in a yurt, surrounded with mountains of Vila Longa, Portugal
We are a Danish couple who have recently started a new chapter in our lives in the mountains of Portugal. We love nature, animals, gardening and simple living, and we are slowly turning our beautiful piece of land into a small off-grid ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Pet and house sitting or help in garden and home with a view of the Serra de Estrela mountains near Seia, Portugal
Hi, would you like to stay for a house and pet sit? I have a year old mixed breed, medium to small size dog . It would be for some days, up to a week so partly usual workaway exchange if you want to stay for longer. If you are used to taking care of ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Come and share tree planting project in Arganil, Portugal
Join us for a permacultural exchange! UPDATE (Oct '26) We are desperately trying to get a couple of hundred trees into the ground, mostly on a steep hillside. Anyone brave enough and fit enough to join us with this challenge would be very ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Produce good qualtiy food using organic methods and permaculture principles in Viseu, central Portugal
I'm Scott and I've been travelling around Europe since 2004. I recently got my own piece of land to settle on where I can put into practice all of the different techniques and principles of ecological building and growing I've picked up over the ......
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about 10 days ago

Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Live and help in a rural art center project in Tondela, Portugal
Our space is a retreat residency for art creation. We are open all year and our clients are artists and projects from all over the world, and the main goal of this project is to host artists and the projects the best possible way. Our residency has ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Join our plant based community project in Lagares da Beira, Central Portugal
We are Rami, Miia and Meera. We live on a big farm in central Portugal, living a plant based life, and growing some of our food following permaculture principals. We have a big event room where we love hosting women's circles, singing circles and ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Help us create our dream quinta and enjoy slow life in Pinheiros Chãos Ferreira do Zêzere, Portugal
Hi! We’re Crissy, Niels and our three-year-old little one Luca. In spring 2026, we swapped life in the Netherlands for a new adventure in the Portuguese countryside. We now live , our piece of land (1.5ha) in Central Portugal, 20 minutes from ......
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about 23 hours ago

Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Transform the education in my city, teaching in nature and creative ways in Vestiaria, Portugal
Hi, I'm Margarida,a mom full of big dreams to transform the education in my town. I have a project of nature activities for children, where a small family community meet together every month to play free in the woods. Now i'm starting a journey to ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Join us on an eco farm to experience traditional village life in Avô, Central Portugal
We live on a 6-hectare organic farm in Central Portugal that offers stunning views of the nearby mountain range. The farm produces olive oil, wine, vinegar, vegetables, and a variety of fruits. The land stretches over a series of ancient stone ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Experience farm life and chill on our homestead in Póvoa de Rio de Moinhos, Portugal
We are a couple in our 50's- Andreea (55) and Yoav (60), living on our beautiful farm near Castelo Branco, Central Portugal with our dog- Heevie and our cats- Tikki and Vanessa, and our sheep and chicken. After 20 years in NYC, we decided to set ......
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about 2 days ago

Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Come and learn on a biodynamic farm with vineyard and olive grove in Central Portugal
Urgent message: *** the person who was supposed to come just cancelled! We need immediate farm, domestic help,and help with the animals**. - If you are interested for period 17 October to 30 November, please contact us. .** We purchased a badly ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Lend a hand and explore Pedrógão Grande, Portugal
**** We are Gail and Mike. We moved from rural Devon to our quinta in Portugal in 2020. We left our jobs and been working on the house and cottage/annexe and our land/forest ever since. If you come and stay with us you will have your own ( ......
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about 19 hours ago

Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Join us with our horses and dogs near Chãos, Portugal
We are James and Sarah, based in beautiful Central Portugal, on small quinta (3Ha) with four horses, six dogs, two cats, 15 chickens, and two dwarf goats. Accommodation is in a large converted caravan (more of a studio flat than a caravan and ......

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about 2 days ago

Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Join our summer tribe and take part in contributing to our vision in Gonçalo, Portugal
Hi, and welcome to my workaway profile! I am Luca, 45 yo mixed race, half Italian half Philippino. In the past 4 years, since moving to Portugal, I have been learning, and I still am, how to craft a new lifestyle, after getting myself a 5ha ......
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Coimbra and Center, Portugal

Come gain some off-grid, agroforestry homestead life experience near Viseu, Portugal
We are Tish, Gabe & Felix (age 7) living off-grid in North/Central Portugal with our 2 cats and 2 dogs. We are not a business. Everything is for self and community consumption. Our place is a 3 acre food forest that started off as a traditional ......
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