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Côa Valley

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Côa Museum

Côa Museum is one of the largest Portuguese museums, opened in July 2010, and placed on the top of a hill overlooking the confluence between Côa and Douro rivers. It is here that two world heritage sites of the region come together: open-air Palaeolithic rock-art of the Côa Valley and the Douro Wine Landscape.

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Cardina

Cardina-Salto do Boi is a reference site for the understanding of human occupation in the region, from the Middle Palaeolithic onward, also providing precious data on the nature of the preserved alluvial/colluvial sediments and the fluvial dynamics of the Côa river during Late Pleistocene. The main cross-section exposed in area, excavated between 1997 and 2018, revealed the existence of a 5 m-thick siliciclastic succession that is being studied in detail.

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Fariseu

Fariseu is an archaeological site localised on the central portion of the left bank of one of the Côa river meander. The first cross-section exposed in area, excavated between 2005 and 2007, with attested Upper Palaeolithic lithic remains, revealed the existence of a 3 to 6 m-thick siliciclastic succession accumulated in an alluvial setting and through gravity-driven slope processes. New excavations are planned to study the local fluvial sedimentary succession in more detail.

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Quina da Barca

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Olga Grande