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Cortecega is situated just off the road from Góis to Colmeal. The village is a delightful mix of old and new houses, built on the side of the hill, and the streets wind  down to an old square of xisto buildings. The village has a lively, lived-in atmosphere, as people go about their daily business, pausing to converse with one another. The inhabitants of the village traditionally lived from agriculture, goats, and sheep. Cortecega had its own mill in an area called Javiel, down on the river Ceira, but it stopped working more than 20 years ago, and is now  a ruin. The women used to bring the maize down in baskets on their heads to the mill for grinding. The olives used to be taken to the lagar (olive press) of Góis. In the past there were about 3 moios in the village - this is a measure for animals -1 moio being equal to 60 animals. The village used to have a problem with a scarcity of water in the summer, and the water was metered out at 20 litres a day per person from the main spring, the ‘Nascente da Junça.’ (‘Spring of Sweet Sedge’). There are two more little springs below the village and the fields, and people also went there to get more water. There is a chapel in the village dedicated to Nossa Senhora das Neves, and the old ‘Eira do Povo’ (‘eira’ means ‘threshing-floor’) is now the festa area.
The huge Casa do Convívio (Community House) is on the main road, separate from the village, and is open at weekends. It can cater for meals for up to 150 people, as it does during the yearly Motorbike Festival of Góis - the villagers doing all the cooking themselves.

There is an amusing old story about the origin of the village’s name:
It is said that the village was first called “Corte”, and once a long time ago, a villager went to the market in Góis to buy a pig. But the pig she bought was blind, and the pig-seller said: “Go on to Corte, blind one!” Since blind is “cega” in Portuguese, this translates as “Caminha para Corte, cega!” Henceforth, the story goes, the village became known as Cortecega. (However, as the village is recorded in the population census of 1527 as ‘Cortemga’ – with 5 dwellings – this story is most likely an imaginative afterthought!)
In the hill above the village is a mine shaft called “A buraca dos Mouros” (“the cave of the Moors”)
There is an old traditional story that the Moors once came to the village and the inhabitants tried to run away. However, the Moors captured one person, hung him on a fig tree and spiked him with iron forks. Meanwhile, a woman ran away with her two little children down the track that leads to the river, to the “Lapa da Fonte”, and hid there under an overhanging stone, like a small cave. She covered the mouths of her two children with her hands, so that the Moors could not hear them cry. The Moors had seen her running away and came looking for her and her children. They stood above the ‘Lapa’ searching for her, but the woman and her children kept silent, and it was only at night, when she was sure that the Moors were gone, that she brought her children out of their hiding place and went back to the village. The village was empty because all the inhabitants had run away, but the Moors were gone and so the woman and her children were safe.