 In the hill slope there are villages, namely Terroso, the seat of the civil parish.Terroso is a picturesque historical village with its parish church built in 1718, that includes in its assets the 16th century icon of Our Lady of Candeias, a Coimbra School sculpture.The icon is said to have washed up on the shore of Azurara and the people of several villages tried to get it, but were the ones from Terroso who grabbed it and it was seen as a sign.