The origin of the name Odivelas is caught up in a peculiar legend that developed from the reign of King Denis. In the legend, King Denis had a habit of travelling late at night to the area of Odivelas, to have liaisons with women. On one of these nights, the Queen (Elizabeth of Portugal) waited for her wandering husband, and confronted him about the nightly trips, asking him: "Ides vê-las senhor...?" (Going to see them, sir?)
The phrase was, therefore, corrupted into Odivelas, or "where the King went to see them [the ladies]".
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