Hello dear Permies!
I'm very happy to have found this forum and all the information about Portugal which I've already found in it! I'm also very happy to see so many of you having done or are in the process of doing the same thing as we wish to do!
My wife and I have just arrived in Portugal around a week ago after a journey that took us through Italy and France over the least 14 months, in which we visited and lived in several communities. We have been in Portugal the first time two years ago where we did the PDC here, and we promised ourselves that we'd be back sooner or later!
During our stay in France we started taking more seriously the dream of buying land in Portugal and having our little homestead. We have started looking into what are the most important things we want on our land, and we hope to define these clearly enough so as to know what we want to search for. We are both quite inexperienced so this is all new for us!
We know for sure that one or more water sources, a couple of fruit trees, being distant from large infrastructural projects and permission to have a non-permanent structure such as a yurt are a bare minimum for us. We are still contemplating what size of land we require as well as if it's important for us to have a small building or ruin with permission to rebuild.
We searched for land online to get an idea of how expensive they are, and we know that most affordable areas for us are the ones around Castelo Branco.
We are currently living with a friend in the area of Sintra, however we plan to soon drive through the Castelo Branco region as well as around Guarda so as to see if we like the areas and hopefully start talking a bit to locals as well.
We would love to connect with any of you who have permaculture projects in the regions and maybe even meet you in person and see your projects!
We would also be happy to receive any recommendations in relation to these regions and on how to go about scouting for land. Are there any parts of these regions that you recommend over others?
