Landscape portrait of the Montado

Sintropias is born within Évora_27 as European Capital of Culture. A gesture of listening before the delicate weave that binds Humanity and the natural world.

Sintropias

Sintropias

Detail of the Montado

Rooted in the Alentejo Montado, the Sintropias project weaves together Art, Ecology and Time, placing the human within a relational system where coexistence, co-evolution, restraint and creation are living practices.

Time is essential matter here: slowness is cultivated as method and ethic, turning active slowness into thought and awareness.

Inspired by syntropic agriculture, Sintropias understands artistic creation as regeneration — an open process that learns from the territory and sees it as a living network. By crossing local knowledge with contemporary experimentation, it affirms an ethic of "making-with", celebrating a creation shared between the human and the more-than-human.

Aerial view of Quinta da Cinzeira, with red-roofed buildings surrounded by olive groves, cultivated fields and the village in the distance
Afonso, steward of the Montado, standing among cork oaks in the late afternoon
Dry grasses of the Montado in the foreground, at dusk
A small reservoir reflecting the sky, surrounded by scattered cork oaks
Cork oaks of the Montado backlit, with sun filtering between the branches
Row of cork oaks on a hillside, with dry pasture in the foreground
Lemon tree heavy with ripe fruit amid dense foliage