The "Vale do Côa International Research Awards" is an International Research Program on Côa Valley, financed by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia – FCT), which aims to stimulate the production of scientific knowledge in the area of influence of the Côa Valley Archaeological Park
As an immense open-air gallery, the Côa Valley features more than a thousand outcrops with rock art, identified in over 80 different sites, predominantly from the Upper Paleolithic, some 25,000 years ago
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Scenes from the daily lives of Paleolithic Artists from the Côa Valley
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The last Neanderthals lived in the Côa Valley
Few archeological themes arouse more curiosity and more debated among the scientific community than the extinction of the “Neanderthal Man” (Homo sapiens neanderthalensis) and his replacement by the Anatomically Modern Man (Homo sapiens sapiens).
Kayak visits to the Archaeological Park will begin on 7th of June.
Make a reservation now, using the email visitas@arte-coa.pt or +351 279 768 260 / +351 965 778 799 and be part...
Important discoveries in the Côa Valley during the pandemics
The archaeological team of the Côa Park Foundation has just published an article in Archéologia, the most important French magazine...
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
If you plan to visit the Park on 24, 31 or 1, we advise the necessary reservation to be made as soon as possible.
Digital renovation of the Coa Museum
In rooms A, D, E, F, and G new virtual and augmented reality devices were installed aimed at an easier reading of the Côa Valley rock art ...
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Exhibitions
The 10th Biennial of Douro without limits.
Based on the oldest demarcated wine region in the world – the Douro and winner of two heritages of humanity...
Drawing, the force that born from silence
António Faria at the Côa Museum, a partnership with the National Museum of Contemporary Art.
The Douro Before you
The “cause” for this current exhibition, “The Douro before you”, is the urge for a hymn, an homage to the Douro people, its places of recollection, the childhood years of the Artist himself - Sobral Centeno.
Tribute to the Côa Valley Rock Art at the National Museum of Archaeology
After being shown at the Côa Museum in 2019, the Tribute to the Côa Valley Rock Art now visits Lisbon.
Exhibition “20 (thousand) Years of the Coa Valley”
At the Paço Gallery of the University of Minho until April 20
Vaccearte at Coa Museum
Vaccearte - Vaccei-inspired contemporary art “Excision in chiaroscuro. Lights and shadows. Archaeology, Ethnography and Art ”at the Côa Museum.