Homestays, Volunteering & Working Holidays in Portugal

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Join us at our land and yurts, stay with us in nature in the Algarve, Portugal
Creating a paradise in the Algarve. Me and my best friend bought a abandoned and wild land in the middle of nature, but close to Aljezur and the best beaches of the west coast. Our dream is to transform this land into a divers and welcoming place, ......

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Come and stay in a rural village northwest of Lisbon, Portugal
Olá, I am Anir, a happy 72 year-young Dutch woman. I lived for almost 18 years in the lower mountains of Central Portugal together with my animals. There, from 2013, I received many volunteer-guests. Together we did small building jobs, took care of ......

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Join us around the house and some other tasks in Cascais, Portugal
Hello all ! As I have a hip prothesis and must protect it, I need someone who can help with the cleaning, putting things away on the attic (I must convert my ex-office into another bedroom), with the garden (cut the bushes and grass and clean the ......

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Explore the beautiful island of Pico and join us at our property in Piedade, Portugal
Hello all , we are a small family, living in the beautiful island of Pico in the Azores, we need at the moment help in our farm and need some extra hands to take care of the garden, property , cleaning and diy projects and building deck .we prefer ......

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Interaction and collaboration in a friendly atmosphere in Vila do Bispo, Portugal.
I am a carpenter who came to this beautiful piece of land 20 years ago. Starting with a pocket knife and living in a van I slowly made this my home moving from the Nomad life into something more stable. Having created everything by my own I can now ......

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Help our Portuguese-Russian family creating a small piece of sustainable paradise in SW Alentejo, Portugal
Hello beautiful people of the world! We are a small Portuguese-Russian family with a 9 year old child. We are artists, musicians, builders and gardeners doing our best to live a simple but meaningful life by creating a small piece of paradise where ......

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Daily life and in our garden on the hill overlooking the ocean on Madeira Island, Portugal
Welcome to our cosy little corner of the world — a cheerful farmhouse nestled in the hills above Santa Cruz, on the lush and lovely island of Madeira. I’m Tom, and I live here with my daughter Eli, our wise old dog Murphy, two slightly mysterious ......

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Join us at our glamping site nestled in the mountains of Central Portugal
Hello, Olá, Salut! I'm Julien, the owner of this open-air hotel and rural camping. I come from Paris, France, where I used to live until I decided it wasn’t fun enough. On November 2010, I took the road to Portugal, driving my old German ambulance ......

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Reconnect with nature while enjoying beautiful sights of Souto da Casa, Portugal
Bom dia! I'm Jonathan, 30 years old, originally from Cape Town, South Africa. I'm a surfer, I love living as healthy as I can, farming, yoga, meditation, music, creating community. I've travelled to 29 countries and had great experiences with ......

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Take part in an eco-building project and learn about Sacred Geometry and permaculture near Bajouca, Portugal
Hi, my name is Paul Bruno, my father is Italian and my mother is Dutch, and I mostly grew up in the Netherlands, where in 1998 I got my diploma as an art teacher, after which I worked as an independent artist with my own company called arti parti - ......

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Become part of our Azorean Paradise adventure, Portugal
I'm Susana and with my partner, we're restoring a house and making it a beautiful place. We have an enormous land with stunning views and we think it's a beautiful project to create a garden and finishing some work in a lovely property, surrounded ......

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Experience life on an off-grid farm and with our many children in Alentejo, Portugal
Bom dia! We are a young family from Belgium: Thomas (42), Evelyne (38), Tippi (8), Bonnie (6) and our twin boys Nalú & Pehuén (1). Almost 7 years ago we bought a piece of land in Sao Luis, Alentejo and started digging into our dreams! We build a ......
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Relaunch a handicraft workshop, and join us with some daily life activities... Alfeizerão, Portugal
I love cats. I've always had and keep lots of cats because they often turn up here or I rescue them from the street. And, as well as making a lot of handicrafts dedicated to and alluding to cats, the profits from these handicrafts go precisely ......
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Join our family in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean in Lagoa, São Miguel
Welcome! I'm Catarina, a passionate freelancer, entrepreneur, and proud mama to a joyful and kind-hearted 4-year-old boy named Lorenzo. I’m a yoga instructor, registered dietitian, and teacher, deeply dedicated to wellness, natural living, and ......

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Relax and host our friends in Sande,Northern Portugal
**28 July 2025 update:** We are only looking for a person that can help with small tasks and fix things around the farm, like: -installing a mosquito net on the windows, -repairing a tile on the floor, -fixing a wood bench that is missing a ......
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Help in our garden and with our horses in the Portuguese mountains, Portugal
We are Menno and Jacqueline. In the summer of 2011 we moved to Portugal together with our 3 children, Finn (now 26), Thijm (now 24) and Caitlin (now 20). We wanted to create something special for and by ourselves, where we can both live and share ......

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Help with organic family farm project in Bragança, Portugal
We are Pedro and Nádia that started this agriculture project in 2012 when we returned to Pedro's birth town (Bragança) and wanted to revive the abandoned family lands. Our family grew last years and we have with us Afonso (born in 2013) and Gaspar ......

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Join us with childcare and at our sustainable home near Peniche, Portugal
Welcome to our family home renovation project near Peniche, Portugal! Our cozy home, located in a charming village just 6 km from Peniche, is undergoing renovations, and we're striving to make it sustainable. We're committed to reusing and recycling ......

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Tree-lovers welcome to experience the lovely countryside with in Algarve, Portugal
Situated in the central Algarve, we (Anne and Frank with family) run the Quinta ourselves for most of the year and are expanding it bit by bit. It is a project of the heart: founded by the parents, we are now expanding through our co-operative to ......
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Dog-sitting in Sagres, a small surfers paradise in the Algarve, Portugal
My name is Zara i live in Sagres, Portugal ,where i have a small quiet guesthouse. sagres is a small surf town, where the sun shines 365 days a year.
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