Açôr
Ádela
Aldeia Velha
Carrimá
Carvalhal
Coiços
Foz da Cova
Loural
Malhada
Quinta das Águias
Quinta de Belide
Ribeira de Ádela
Ribeiro de Além
Roçaio
Saião
Salgado
Sobral
Soito
Vale de Asna

As you travel up the road to Ádela the village can be seen below in its entirety, as it is built along one of the narrowest ridges in the Góis region, and unusually, it has two chapels – one at each end of the narrow road running through the village. The one at the beginning of the village is dedicated to São Lourenço, and the one at the top of the hill is dedicated to Nossa Sr.ª da Luz. Many of the houses in the village have been modernized and painted white, but there are still many xisto houses in  Ádela.
The founders of the village are said to have first settled in a place called ‘Outeiro do Povoal’ near to Sobral. But this place had very little water and was very steep and so someone said: “Vamos para a de lá!” (Let’s go over there!) and so they moved further on and founded the village of Ádela (“a de lá!”). Here they have such a good water supply that one of the fonts in the village has two taps giving the inhabitants a choice of spring to draw their water from:  Fonte do Vale or Fonte do Carochos (Fountain of the Beetles).

The land at each side of the village falls away steeply, and on each side the valleys have been terraced. Below the village are a collection of xisto buildings that line the old road, that were once storehouses (‘tulhas’) for the village. Every family of the village had its own ‘tulha’, where they stored their olives before they were pressed in the ‘lagar’ close by.
It is said that in the village used to be four baking ovens that the villagers used, giving as payment to the owner the ash to fertilize his land.
There were once seven mills close to Ádela: one in ‘Porto de Carvalhalva’, another in ‘Azenha’, (‘water-mill’), then there were the ‘Moinho pequeno’, ‘Moinho da Foz Salgueira, ‘Moinho Novo’, ‘Moinho das Carvalheiras’ and the ‘Moinho Fundeiro’. All these mills are now ruined.

The most important water-course of the region, the ‘Levada dos Mouros ‘, (‘levada of the Moors’) comes down from the Ribeira de Ádela.
There are also several mines in the area said to date from the time of the Moors. For example the mine of Fonte Salgueira, above Ádela, that has a passage that goes in a straight line for more than 100m. In the middle is a huge waterfall through the roof, from a spring  in the Penedo Velho above the mine.*
*Source: ‘GENTE DA SERRA Do seu Quotidiano e Costumes’ por Lisete P. Almeida de Matos, data de Edição de 1990.