The Fundação para a Salvaguarda e Valorização do Vale do Côa (FCP) opens a call for one research fellowship, in the framework of the CLIMATE@COA project “CLIMATE@COA – Climate and human adaptation during theLast Glacial Period in the Côa Valley region (Portugal) reference: COA/CAC/0031/2019, financed or co-financed by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia,I.P./MCTES through...
The Côa Park Foundation in collaboration with the Morph Group and the Polytechnic Institute of Guarda will teach the 8th Rock Art Guides of the Côa Valley course, between April and June, at the Côa Museum, located at Rua do Museu, Vila Nova de Foz Côa, from 9am-12:30pm/14h-17:30pm, in a total of approximately 230h. The...
More than 100 years ago (1921), a world pioneering exhibition in Madrid, marked the beginning of the large-scale dissemination of the oldest art created by human beings. The exhibition brought together two decades of documentation and study made by Spanish, French and German researchers. But it was not only a question of giving visibility to research,...
More than 100 years ago (1921), a world pioneering exhibition in Madrid, marked the beginning of the large-scale dissemination of the oldest art created by human beings. The exhibition brought together two decades of documentation and study made by Spanish, French and German researchers. But it was not only a question of giving visibility to...
Tomorrow, February 4th, the book “CÔA SYMPOSIUM – New Views on Paleolithic Art” will be presented at Carmo Archaeological Museum in Lisbon. The opening session is scheduled for 5:30 pm and will be presided by José Arnaud – President of AAP and Aida Carvalho – President of the Côa Park Foundation. The conference “3 years...
The Côa Park Foundation wishes to all its employees, partners and friends a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! We inform you that the Côa Museum will be closed on December 24th, 25th and January 1st 2022.
As part of UNESCO’s World Heritage classification of the Côa Rock Art and Alto Douro Wine Region, the Côa Park Foundation and the Douro Museum present the exhibition “CÔA DOURO: for a future memory”. This exhibition results from the collaboration between the Côa Park Foundation and the Douro Museum in a photographic collection project that focuses...
Extension of the deadline, until 30 November. Côa Parque – Foundation for the safeguard and enhancement of the Côa Valley, also known as Côa Parque Foundation is launching a contest for the attribution of 10 (ten) research grants, hereinafter called Doctoral Research Grants, in the scientific areas of “Environment and Global Change”, “Environment, Territory and...
The exhibition Contra-parede (Against the wall) is a dialogue between the work of artists Ana Vidigal, Nuno Nunes-Ferreira and Pedro Gomes. Taking as its starting point a rumination on the significance of the wall itself — spanning prehistoric caves, the building façades of ancient civilisations, Christian churches since the Middle Ages, medieval frescos, Renaissance trompe...
The Ministry of Science, Technology and Higher Education is organizing the ANTHROPOCENE FORUM, at the Côa Museum, from June 15 to 17, in the context of the Portuguese Presidency of the European Union. The event promotes dialogue with the Anthropocene Working Group (2009) which is responsible for providing convincing evidence for the Anthropocene to be...
