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

The village of Sobral sits high on the side of the Ribeira da Panasquiera. There used to be a lot of sobreiros (cork oaks) around here, and the name “Sobral” comes from this.
The main village is built around a little horseshoe bend, with the houses on the steeper rocky ground, allowing the less steep ground to be used for cultivation. At the centre of the village is a little square shaded by a lime tree. Above the village is the chapel dedicated to Nossa Sr.ª do Rosário, that dates back to the 14th century. The village shares its chapel with Salgado and Saião.
In the valley above Sobral there were once several more settlements, now abandoned – Panasqueira (‘field of parsnips’) and Eiras do Bispo (‘the bishop’s threshing-floor’).
Also in the village is a ‘Casa do Convívio’ opened in 1993 by the ‘Grupo dos Amigos de Sobral, Saião e Salgado’. There used to be one mill on the Ribeira de Saião and four mills on the Ribeira do Lagar, but  the mills from the Ribeira do Lagar were washed away during a flood. On the Ribeira do Lagar there was also once a  ‘lagar’ (olive press) that presumably gave the river its name.

It appears that wolves were to be found in this part of the region into the 20th century, and there are many stories told about close escapes and fatalities, within living memory. One story told in both Sobral and the neighbouring village of Ádela concerns a young man of Sobral who was courting a girl in Ádela, about 4km away. One evening, although it was just dark, he wanted to go and visit his sweetheart. His mother forbade him to go out of the house at this hour because of the wolves. But he wanted to see his ‘namorada’ so much that he tricked his mother by putting pieces of cork in the form of a body under the blankets of his bed to look like he was sleeping, and went out into the night through the window. In the night his mother had a nightmare that her beloved son was being attacked by wolves. The next day, all that was found of the boy were his feet in his shoes - the rest was gone.
A woman of the village told us that her grandfather, Dionísio Vicente, came from the village of Pessegueiro in the Concelho de Pampilhosa da Serra,  and was courting a girl at Aldeia Velha. One night he left Pessegueiro to make his way to Aldeia Velha to go on the next day to Colmeal to prepare the papers for his wedding. As he was walking, three wolves suddenly appeared and started to circle him. He thought it was all over, and he would not be preparing a wedding after all. But meanwhile in the village of Aldeia Velha, a dog who was familiar with him started to sense that something was wrong, and ran to help him. This brave dog fought against the wolves giving the young man the chance to run away, and he arrived breathless but safe in the village. The dog that saved his life returned wounded three days later, but she survived. So the wedding took place after all, and future generations were born thanks to the courage of a dog.

Like so many villages of the region, the people of Sobral worked and played together closely. The older folk can still remember the times when they used to have dance parties (‘bailes’) at night with accordion and guitar playing, and at Carnival time they would dress up in their grandparents’ clothes and party.