A place where creativity is inspired by simplicity
A place to tend to the land
A place to nourish body and soul
Altan Tepe
We invite you to journey into our nest near Alpedrinha, rural Portugal; a place of refuge, nurture and dreaming, surrounded by golden hills.
Here, we weave together in circle, land and sky tending, creating, & nourishment to form a Rural School of Arts.
Through these offerings we attune our ear once more to the sounds of the land, moving with the earth and her elements. Allowing the land to invite us to create & invite us to dream.Experiencing the healing of a different quality of time.
A journey to become a healing and teaching landscape, woven by many hearts
JOURNEY WITH US: RURAL SCHOOL OF ARTS
A place for offerings, for teaching for tending and for experiences that restore the wilds lands of the heart. A place to contact the royal beauty of the elemental.
Journey with us through a series of experiences explorative artist residencies, land tending camps, pathway work and heritage craft experinences. Sharing moments of creativity and harvest amongst the wildness.
Gather to dream and create in new ways

STAY WITH US
For an experience of the elemental, camping amongst the many fruit trees, olives, rocks, and waters. Here we rise with the sun and rest with the moon, living by candlelight.We collect water from the mountain and bathe in the natural springs. We ease into the quiet, and reconnect with ourselves, with one another, and with the wider web of all living things.
JOURNAL
All who visit Altan Tepe, to tend to the land and self