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 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 "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).
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The archaeological team of the Côa Park Foundation has just published an article in Archéologia, the most important French magazine on archaeological news. The team announced the discovery of a new engraved panel, more than 6 meters long, containing more than 20 new Palaeolithic engravings, which was covered by archaeological layers. Meanwhile, archaeological works have...
If you plan to visit the Park on 24, 31 or 1, we advise the necessary reservation to be made as soon as possible.
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 ...
Science and Technology Week at the Coa Museum's Live Science Center
