Côa Museum – winner of the Education and Cultural Mediation Project, awarded by the Portuguese Museology Association (APOM), with the project “Serviço de Educação e Mediação Cultural do Museu e Parque Arqueológico do Côa“. “The Education and Cultural Mediation Service of the Côa Park Foundation” was created in 2010 and constitutes one of the main...
Today, December 2, the date marking the 22nd anniversary of the inscription of the Rock Art Sites of the Côa Valley on the UNESCO World Heritage List, the interministerial decree determining the preparation of the Special Programme of the Archaeological Park of the Côa Valley (PEPA Côa Valley) was published in Diário da República. The...
The Côa Park Foundation celebrates today, December 2, the 22nd anniversary of the classification of the Côa Valley Rock Art on the UNESCO World Heritage list. This classification, the fastest in UNESCO’s history, was based on two fundamental criteria: “The Upper Paleolithic rock art of the Côa Valley is an exceptional illustration of the sudden...
The Côa Parque Foundation is pleased to invite you to visit the exhibition entitled "Manuel Botelho: White Lead" by the curatorship of Filipa Oliveira, which will be on display in the temporary exhibition rooms of the Côa Museum from 21 November to 14 March 2021.
The Côa Park Foundation has won a third prize at the European Cultural Tourism Network Awards, this year under the theme “Special Interest Tourism development and promotion based on Cultural Heritage”, in a virtual ceremony held yesterday, 22 October. The application “Côa Museum with a new digital storytelling for a strong cultural experience”, which presented...
The Côa Museum – Ciência Viva Centre celebrates the World Teacher’s Day on October 5, the date created by UNESCO in 1994, to honour the teaching work, a mission especially praised in this atypical and challenging time in which we live. We invited those who have chosen to make a living from this noble profession...
The Côa Valley and Siega Verde are the largest open-air Palaeolithic art gallery, classified since 1998 and 2010 as World Heritage by UNESCO. The Côa Parque Foundation and the Junta de Castilla y León, present the exhibition “Stones with Memory” which aims to make these two important sites known, as well as the Palaeolithic occupation...
Based on the oldest demarcated wine region in the world – the Douro and winner of two heritages of humanity granted by UNESCO is world renowned both for its vineyard landscape and for the archaeological heritage of the Côa Valley. Here is the largest sanctuary of Paleolithic engraving of the world, but the Douro is...
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
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).
