The Archaeological Park of the Côa Valley concentrates most of the prehistoric sites of rock art of the Côa Valley, considered the most important in the world, in palaeolithic art of outdoors. Is classified by UNESCO as a World Heritage Site.
For the promotion of historical and cultural heritage of the prehistoric Site of Rock Art of the Côa River Valley, was built the Museum of Côa, with magnificent views over the Côa Valley. The Museum gives special emphasis to rock carvings, as “unique samples of the first manifestations of symbolic creation of mankind, and the beginning of cultural development dating back to the Paleolithic”.