WWOOF
Free: All time (0€ – 56€ membership) WWOOF is a network of organic farms and smallholdings with people who are looking for volunteer work offering in exchange food, accommodation and opportunities to learn about organic lifestyles. Each country has a local WWOOF organization so, in order to get involved you must connect with the local...
Helpx
Free: All time (20€ – 2 years membership) Helpx is a work exchange network started back in 2001. The idea came from Rob Prince, who has traveled over several years throughout Australia and New Zealand. In order to keep travel longer, he started to work in farms and hostels for accommodation and, sometimes, food. Didn’t took longer to realize...
Workaway
Free: All time (22€ – 2 years membership) Workaway is another global work exchange community with a wide range of projects. Here you can find work like helping in an organic café in New Zealand or in an hostel in Las Vegas, give a hand on creating a meditation retreat in France or even help...
The Poosh
Free: All time The Poosh is an online and offline community and a global database of sustainable self-build projects and volunteers. The aim is to give an opportunity to self-build projects to find like minded people to share knowledge and get help. By volunteering to help, the volunteer, gets in exchange free accommodation, food and...
Mind My House
Free: All time (US$20 / year membership) Mind My House is an online community that brings home owners and house sitters together. The deal is, you get free accommodation in exchange of house and pet sitting when the owner is away. Not completely free because to subscribe as an house sitter you will need to...
Botanic Garden
Free: All time In spite of being small, you can find in this beautiful garden a wide range of plants, aquatic plants and trees. The romantic garden, that maintains its singular characteristics from the XIX century, includes the Andersen house. The house name remembers important portuguese literature names form the XX century as is Sophia...
Shortcutz Lisbon
Free: Tuesdays 10pm Shortcutz is an international short film movement, festival and showcase of creative and cultural projects and ideas. It started in Lisbon in 2010 but now is present in Porto, Berlin, Madrid, Dublin, London and Amsterdam. Every tuesday, in a bar called Bicaense, it is presented 3 short films always introduced by its...
Shortcutz Porto
Free: Wednesdays 10pm Shortcutz is an international short film movement, festival and showcase of creative and cultural projects and ideas. It started in Lisbon in 2010 but now is present in Porto, Berlin, Madrid, Dublin, London and Amsterdam. Every wednesday, in the Hard Club, it is presented 3 short films always introduced by its producers....
Cineclube Lusófona
Free: Wednesdays 5.30pm The Cineclube is part of Lusófona University. Each month, a theme is chosen and every wednesday of that month a movie under that theme is presented. Address: Augusto Rosa Street, 24, 4000-098 Porto Opening hours: Wed: 5.30pm Direction: Metro Blue (A), Red (B), Green (C), Yellow (D) to São Bento and then...
The House of Stories: Paula Rego
Free: All time Paula Rego is one of Portugal’s most famous artists. Her work expresses polemic themes mainly about the role of women in society, idealization of the representation of women and discussions about Portugal during the dictatorship of Antonio Salazar and Estado Novo. Here, you can find a permanent collection of her work and also temporary...
Tower of Belém
Free: Sundays / Holidays 10am-2pm | Holders of a Lisbon Card Belém Tower is a fortified tower located in the shore of the Tagus river. Like Jerónimos Monastery, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was built in the early 16th century to be part of a defense system at the mouth of the Tagus...
Jerónimos Monastery
Free: Sundays – Holidays 10am-2pm | Holders of a Lisbon Card A late-gothic monument, this monastery was classified as a UNESCO World Heritage Site. It was built in 1502 in order to commemorate the naval journeys and achievements of Vasco da Gama and glorified by Luís de Camões in his poem “Os Lusíadas”. There, among...
