Aigra Nova
Aigra Velha
Alagoa
Albergaria
Alegria
Alvém
Bordeiro
Carcavelos
Carvalhal Miúdo
Casal Bordeiro
Carvão
Casal dos Moinhos
Casalinho de Baixo
Casalinho de Cima
Casal Loureiro
Caselhos
Cerdeira
Cerejeira
Chã e Favaqueira
Cimo de Alvém
Civado
Comareira
Conhais
Cortecega
Esporão
Folgosa
Frontão
Ladeiras
Liboreiro
Luzendas
Outeiro
Manjão
Nogueiro
Pena
Piães
Pião
Pontão do Seladinho
Ponte do Sótão
Portela
Portela de Góis
Póvoa de Cerdeira
Póvoa de Góis
Povorais
Quinta do Carvão
Regateira
Ribeira Cimeira
Ribeira Fundeira
Samoura
São Martinho
Vale Boa
Vale de Maceira
Vale Godinho
Vale Moreiro
Vale Torto
Vale Travasso

As you approach Piães on the road that rises from Regateira, you will see that the pine trees have terracotta or plastic bowls attached to their trunks. This is for pine-sap collection, carried out by the inhabitants of the local villages. The trees show marks on their trunks from years of tapping. A little further on, you see the valley below the village, its rich fertile soil planted with vegetables and maize. Strawberry plants, once planted in the fields, have escaped and now line the road. The village sits higher on the hill, surrounded by silver olive trees.

The houses are built on the steepest land, and have a series of narrow pathways and steps between them: one passageway to a group of houses is less than 1m wide. Above the village are small xisto buildings, once used to house the sheep and goats that grazed the higher pastures. Piães probably dates back as far as the Roman occupation of Portugal. In the valley above the village there are Roman and also Moorish gold mines, and three irrigation channels to provide water to the neighbouring villages. The longest levada for irrigation is the ‘Levada do Albaról’ that goes nearly to Bordeiro, the second is the ‘Levada  do Lameiro da Junça’ and takes water to Vale Godinho, the third is the ‘Levada das Vinhas’ or ‘Levada Cimeira’, that brought water from the mill (that still stands) to Carvalhas, the land between Piães and Outeiro. (One meaning of the word ‘Pia’ is ‘sluice’, and it is likely that it is from this that the village gets ots name).
The village is named in the 1527 census of the Góis region, and is said to have had two permanent dwellings at that time. It was found, in the mid-20th century, that the streams running down from the hills had deposited minerals in the soils of the valley. The mining engineer Stanley Mitchell, who had previously opened several tin and tungsten mines, recognised the potential and organised the panning of the valley soils. Tin, tungsten and gold were all found in the soil, and the exercise also presented an opportunity for the villagers to remove all the stones. One of the older residents of the village recounted seeing Stanley Mitchell riding into the village on his horse, to supervise the work.