Covas do Rio
Headquarters of the parish with the same name, Covas do Rio is installed near the top of the Arroyo Deilão at the base of Mount St. Macarius, making it part of the following places: Penalty, a small circus background and whence a tributary stream that, Covas do Monte, a point where the valley that carries the so-called Portal of Hell widens to contain the village and a area fields surprisingly extensive.
Is believed to have existed, what is now the headquarters, an early settlement, the time Lusitanian – Roman. Some places in this parish were mentioned from the beginning of nationality, or even before.
Thus, a letter from the sale of 1009 or in 1096, the document by which a monk of Arouca, Sisnando, donated to the monastery of many goods that had ‘in the pits Penafiel Rio’. Another document of 1078, the reference is: “in the territory of Pennafidele Covas, discurrente Rivularia Sur ‘.
The term ‘Pennafidele’ will lead to the village of Pena, although a legend you check one another: in order to escape a huge snake that everyone wanted to swallow but that will just killed by an individual more ingenious – the inhabitants of the primitive village, which resulted in a place called Barroso, changed – to the current location, not without saying that Pena was changed. Nearby, along the slope to the sides of Covas do Rio, there is a snake pit, a small depression that relates to the serpent of legend.
[in "The Mass Gralheira" Mário de Araújo Ribeiro Magalhães issue in the City of Arouca]
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