Travel, Place, Time and Attention
Inhabiting the territory, not just visiting it
Travelling with time means accepting a different rhythm. It means slowing down. Staying longer. Learning to observe better. Allowing places, stories and people to reveal themselves little by little, without haste or artifice. We Want Green isn't about visiting places - it's about inhabiting a territory...
A Border That Unites: Alto Minho and Galicia as a Shared Cultural Landscape
Between Alto Minho and Galicia: a living cultural border Between Alto Minho and Galicia there is a clear political border, but a surprisingly permeable cultural border. Anyone who travels around this territory carefully will quickly realise that the River Miño doesn't...
Inhabiting Time: Another Way of Travelling in Alto Minho
More than tourism: creating a relationship with the place We Want Green is not a conventional tourist product. It's a way of working with the territory, time and lived cultures. Rooted in Alto Minho, in the far north-west of Portugal, the project looks at landscapes...
Júlia Labourdonnay, Viscountess of Sistelo: A Life Between Landscape and Freedom
Beyond the landscape: identity and creation When we think of Sistelo, the image that comes to mind is almost always of the landscape: the green terraces, the vernacular architecture, the delicate balance between human labour and nature. But the history of this territory is not...
Inhabited territories: landscape, time and ways of life
Places that require time and permanence There are territories that reveal themselves immediately, and others that require time - not because they are hidden, but because they are made up of layers. They are places shaped not by a single moment or event, but by the accumulation of gestures,...
Living Culture Through Nature in Rural Portugal
Experiencing rural Portugal through landscape, time and presence In rural Portugal, nature is not a backdrop. It is a lived space, moulded over centuries by human presence, seasonal work and attentive gestures. Fields, paths,...
Wine as a Cultural Landscape
More than conventional wine tourism We don't offer wine tourism experiences in the traditional sense. In the Vinho Verde region, wine is part of everyday life - moulded by the land, the climate, the history and the people who have lived with it for generations....
Disconnect to Reconnect: Nature in the Digital Age
Nature as a space for inner regulation Immersion in nature is profoundly beneficial for our well-being. Whether in a small garden, an urban park, remote mountains or rural villages in the countryside, simple contact with living landscapes acts as a...
Alvarinho: the spirit and soul of a territory
A grape variety in dialogue with its territory A grape variety in its territory: that's what we're trying to tell here. Alvarinho on the banks and slopes of the River Minho. Not everywhere - because refinement is, by nature, capricious. And so is this variety. Before going any further,...
The Lightness of Walking
Walking as a gesture of switching off Walking in nature is switching off. It's putting one foot behind the other and moving forwards - slowly. It's suspending the noise of everyday life and responding to an ancient, almost ancestral impulse, a nomadic drive inscribed in the dawn of humanity. There's a...
To Pause in Order to Think. To Think in Order to Live Better
An experience of presence, listening and long time Is there anything more appropriate than immersion in nature to disconnect us from the incessant background noise and acceleration that characterises contemporary urbanised and hyperconnected societies? The philosopher...
Monção and Melgaço + Rías Baixas: A Journey of Discovery
Scenario 1 – The complete journey, from Monção and Melgaço to the Rías Baixas Suppose you arrive in Monção or Melgaço from Porto airport, or from anywhere else in Portugal. Settle in and relax. The next day, set off with us to discover this magnificent sub-region...
