Latest news and stories about rural life in Portugal for expats and residents.
Sociologist Paula Duque directs the 'Periferias' Film Festival, which brings award-winning films to villages along the Portuguese-Spanish border in the Alentejo: 'We have had as many as 700 people watching a film outdoors.'
The attack took place in the early hours of last Monday. The breeder estimates that the losses are around 15,000 euros.
Memories of a time that the interior must not let fall into oblivion.
The horizontal-wheel mills, always privately owned, were already enumerated and described in the survey ordered by the Marquis of Pombal after the earthquake.
In the interior, life is marked by a strange mix of lack and excess. I wouldn't trade these stresses for a traffic jam on the Segunda Circular. But I don't romanticise them either. A column by Liliana Carona.
Fountains are celebrated as places for meeting, sharing confidences and news, of all types: anonymous or named, simple, 'wading' or immersion, recent or centuries-old.
An upcoming major event celebrating rural life and traditions is set to take place in the Ribatejo region.
Portugal is currently among the countries with the lowest proportion of children and young people, and Portuguese children are among those who spend the most time in school. Vila Velha de Ródão is an exception in the country's demographic desert. It is one of the few municipalities where the number of children under 10 years old has increased.
In the days when peasants were men of faith, against thunderstorms and May plagues, there were promises, processions, votive offerings, stone crosses, and small stick crosses in the wheat fields to save the crops.
We climbed to the top of the Caramulo Mountains to discover this land of ancient granaries and threshing floors, of geraniums in fish crates, and of the festival and pilgrimage of Saint Frutuoso, which only fills up in the summer.
A book about a legacy “hand in hand with Spain”, which reached livestock tourism and may serve as a stimulus for other family stories.
This year, the Institute for Nature Conservation and Forests received 326 reports of alleged damages.
There, the doctor, already with the same comforting smile, explained to Mr. José not to worry because, in truth, for his case—a case where the illness was fatal and very painful—there were “options”.
Part I of 'Investigação CM' from April 21, 2026.
Part II of 'Investigação CM' from April 21, 2026.
A young man, a high-performance athlete, left Lisbon to work in the countryside with his grandfather.
This pays tribute to Clarinda Fernandes, from Vilar do Monte, the eldest of 6, who looked after her siblings from the age of 9 and sold firewood and pine kindling with her father using an ox cart.
FEATURE REPORT || In Castro Laboreiro, transhumance still takes place between the winter settlement of Cainheiras and the summer settlement of Padressouro, with a mother and daughter moving their home, animals, and the season up the mountain. But this is also a story of resistance, memory, and a very unique way of being in the world. A story of freedom. The report is by journalist Tiago Palma, with cinematography by Lucénio Carvalho and editing by João Pedro Ferreira.
In Castro Laboreiro, transhumance is still practised between the winter settlement of Cainheiras and the summer settlement of Padressouro, with a mother and daughter taking their home, animals, and the season up the mountain. However, this is also a story of resistance, memory, and a very unique way of being in the world. A story of freedom. The report is by journalist Tiago Palma, with sound design by João Pedro Ferreira.
REPORT || Over two days at the end of March, between Cainheiras and Padressouro, an 82-year-old mother and her 60-year-old daughter lead chickens, rabbits, goats, sheep, bags of flour, staffs, clothes, and hay — and a way of life that threatens to end with them. In Castro Laboreiro, transhumance still exists, but it has also become something else: a conversation about old age, work, fear, freedom, borders, and loneliness. And the stubbornness to carry on.
Regarding the fires that have been tormenting the Central region, the author evokes the various bell tolls in the village of his childhood, which are no longer heard.
There is a small inland parish in the Baixo Alentejo region that has grown in recent years. It now has a larger population and a wide range of cultural offerings. There are more than 50 nationalities in São Martinho das Amoreiras.
A new photography exhibition capturing everyday life in rural Portugal from the 1960s to the 1980s will open at Casa Manuel Teixeira Gomes in Portimão on Saturday, April 11 at The post Rare glimpse of Portugal’s past unveiled in Portimão exhibition appeared first on Portugal Resident.
At Quinta de Sampayo, in Vale da Pinta, Cartaxo, a family has restored 1,000 Galega olive trees and invested in the revival of the Trincadeira das Pratas grape variety. With sensory experiences, the doors are open to experience authentic rural life.
An artistic creation and community intervention project brings together professional and amateur photographers for a “sensitive reading of the territory”. In the summer, there will be an exhibition in an urban space.
Three days, a stone oven, and decades of knowledge passed between hands. The tradition of the Transmontano folar resists — and rejuvenates — every Easter in a village in Montalegre.
A reflection on the things that endure after events or time have passed.
They say “March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb”. This past spring weekend, lambs and sheep came to Amorosa (São Bartolomeu de Messines), a small The post First sheep show a shear success in Algarvian village appeared first on Portugal Resident.
We have come to call development the rush for constant replacement, the idea that everything old must be left behind. But in the countryside it becomes clear that not everything old is worn out.
