Social entrepreneurs seeking personal transformation in a gift-economy mountain retreat (families and pets welcome).
Cozy wooden cabins nestled in lush green mountains provide an authentic rural living experience with mountain views from windows.
A large garden populated with chickens, rabbits, cats, and other animals creates a charming farm-like atmosphere that guests find delightful.
The nearby Pas River offers opportunities for swimming, bathing, and peaceful walks along its banks for natural recreation.
A focused community of purpose-driven entrepreneurs and social impact project developers creates meaningful professional networking and collaboration.
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PAS Coliving offers wooden cabins in the mountains in a village with less than 100 inhabitants. Located in Cantabria's Valles Pasiegos, the space features six wooden cabins accommodating up to 20 people, a garage converted to an open coworking space, and a small farm filled with gardens, fruit trees and colorful orchards. The coliving provides high-speed fiber optic internet and is only 40 minutes from Santander.
PAS Coliving was born from the founders of Hola Ghana, who were building schools in Ghana and returned to Spain to continue building their rural coliving space. After many years of living a nomadic life and spending 15 years exploring the world across England, the United States, Germany, India, Ghana, Switzerland, Canada and Colombia, Oscar and Lulu returned to Cantabria and settled in Villegar in the heart of the Valles Pasiegos.
The space takes its name from the Pas River, which runs through the valley and gives its name to the region and its inhabitants, the Pasiegos. They discovered the history of these transhuman cattle farmers who had between 5 and 10 cabins and moved up to 20 times a year with their dairy cattle between pastures of different heights.
PAS Coliving operates as a non-profit organization with an essence focused on exploring ways to make the economy more inclusive. They design pricing and contribution systems that allow for socio-economic diversity to access every service and experience, using a generosity-based pricing model where colivers with greater financial capacity contribute more (1,200€), those with average income pay market-based contributions (980€), and those with lowest income can access the experience contributing less (790€).
The community emphasizes cooking together every night to create authentic relationships, using fresh ingredients from their garden and saving leftovers for the chickens. They organize workshops, seminars, trainings and retreats with companies and NGOs, and are active as hosts and partners in Erasmus+ programs. The space invites neighbors to be part of the project and organizes seed talks, awakin circles, hiking, workshops and other activities every week.
Their philosophy centers on promoting practices of collective support that transcend dehumanized market paradigms, with love and connection as the main forces of their work. They believe in contributing time to the project, following the principle that "the true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit."
PAS Coliving is located in Villegar, a small mountain village with fewer than 100 inhabitants in the Valles Pasiegos region of Cantabria, in northern Spain's Green Spain. The coliving sits on a small farm surrounded by gardens, fruit trees, and colorful orchards, with the lush green hills and mountains of the Cantabrian range as a backdrop.
The Pas River runs through the valley and is central to local life, featuring bridges, natural pools, a greenway, and historic spas. The area has a deep heritage tied to the Pasiegos — transhumant cattle farmers who historically moved between mountain pastures. Guests consistently describe the atmosphere as calm, peaceful, and immersed in nature, with one reviewer noting it "almost felt like a little rainforest."
The location is very rural, with limited services within walking distance, though a bar/restaurant is right next door and a small ice cream shop is about 15 minutes away on foot. The nearest beach is approximately 30 minutes away, with Cantabria's 220-kilometer coastline offering more than 70 beaches.
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