Chapinheira is the most northerly village in the region of Góis and straddles two of the neighbouring concelhos (Arganil and Vila Nova de Poiares). The buildings in the village are more spread out than in many of the other villages of the region. The village was originally made up of several quintas. The older buildings are made from a mixture of sandstone and rounded glacial stones. There is a chapel in honour to Sr.ª da Salvação and a festa area in the Góis part of the village. The land around the village slopes gently, and is still used to grow rye and vegetables. From Chapinheira’s location on top of the hill it has excellent views of Peneda de Góis.

Sr. Rogério, one of the older residents, told us about his village. In the past there was, near the chapel, a resin company and next to that a limekiln. The limekiln closed about 60 years ago and the area was cleared for eucalyptus planting. In the Arganil part of the village there lived a man who made the pots for chanfana (traditional goat stew) and pitchers from the black clay that comes from near Vilarinho de Alva. There were also a shoemaker, a tailor and a carpenter in the village, as well as two taverns.
 The people lived from agriculture and had 10 oxen for working on the fields. They planted rye, wheat and maize and everything the land could produce, and sheep and goats grazed the hill. The millers came from Vila Nova do Ceira to collect the cereals for grinding in their mills, and the olives went to the olive presses of Vila Nova do Ceira or Pombeiro da Beira (Arganil) to be pressed. Below the village on the Arganil side was the old spring called Fonte do Salgueiro where people used to go with their pitchers for water.