Visit the Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde

The Prehistoric Rock Art Sites in the Côa Valley and Siega Verde are home to some of the world's oldest open-air Paleolithic engravings, dating back over 20,000 years.

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Prehistoric Rock-Art Site of the Côa Valley

The Prehistoric Rock-Art Sites of the Côa Valley are open-air Paleolithic archaeological sites located in a region of northeastern Portugal, along the Portuguese-Spanish border. In the late 1980s, the engravings were discovered in Vila Nova de Foz Côa. The site in situated in the valley of the Côa River, and comprises thousands of engraved drawings of horses, bovines and other animal, human and abstract figures, dated from 22,000 to 10,000 years BCE.

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