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Privilege of being next to original engravings that are 30 thousand years old!!!
Sharing knowledge with visitors
A moonlit night that lights our path!
A starry sky away from the city's light pollution!
Tour in a 4x4 vehicle where the landscape is always surprising!

Night Visit to the Engravings of Foz Côa in 4x4 between DOURO and CÔA

By Ambieduca
10 out of 10
Free cancellation available
Price is CA $82 per adult* *Get lower prices by selecting more than 2 adults
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Features
  • Free cancellation available
  • 2h
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation
  • Selective hotel pickup
  • Multiple languages
Overview

The guided tour begins at sunset next to the reception centre in the historic village of Castelo Melhor.
Marco welcomes you and gives you recommendations for this trip through Time!
The descent to the Côa Valley (6 km) is in a 4x4 vehicle between ancient stone walls, olive groves and traditional almond groves. Along the descent we have a remarkable panoramic view of Quinta de Erva Moira, one of the most beautiful Quintas in the Douro.
We begin to travel through time guided by the guide's skill, imagining mountain goats, herds of primitive bulls, horses and deer grazing along the banks of the river and a group of hunter-gatherers who attentively follow the herds preparing for the hunt!
We parked next to the Côa River and when we got out of the car, the sounds, smells and sky enveloped us! We awaken the senses in harmony with the natural environment.
A short walk (300 m) takes us to the 1st of 5 rocks.

By turning on the beaming light, we open the window of time and reveal the art of our ancestors in all its splendour!

Activity location

  • Vale do Coa Archaeological Park
    • R. do Museu
    • 5150-610, Vila Nova de Foz Coa, Portugal

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • Centro de Recepção de Castelo Melhor
    • 1 Rua da Fábrica
    • 5150-118, Castelo Melhor, Guarda, Portugal

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Night Visit to the Engravings of Foz Côa in 4x4 between DOURO and CÔA in Multilingual
  • Activity duration is 2 hours2h2h
  • Opening hours: Mon 8:30 p.m.-10:30 p.m.
  • English

Pickup included

Price details
CA $82.37 x 2 AdultsCA $164.74
Total
Price is CA $164.74

What's included, what's not

  • What's includedWhat's includedAir-conditioned vehicle
  • What's includedWhat's includedAll Fees and Taxes

Know before you book

  • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
  • Service animals allowed
  • Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
  • Suitable for all physical fitness levels

Activity itinerary

Vale do Coa Archaeological Park
  • 1h
  • Admission ticket included
After meeting at the meeting point, we will descend on a 6km ride in a 4x4 vehicle to the Côa Valley Archaeological Park. Breathtaking landscapes between ancient stone walls, olive groves, almond groves and vineyards. The guided interpretive tour allows you to discover the landscape at the same time as we travel back in time to the Upper Palaeolithic where we can see, in the place where they were recorded, rock art with approximately 30 thousand years of history!!! The natural riverside environment, the sounds and smells are the perfect setting for this journey through time!
Castelo Melhor (Pass by)
Meeting point is in the historic village of Castelo Melhor. The Castelo Melhor castle is one of the best examples of a secondary medieval fortress, built in one of the most peripheral areas of the peninsular kingdoms. The original work is Leonese and dates back to the beginning of the 13th century, when there was an intense fortification of the Riba-Côa line, an area constantly disputed by the Portuguese and Castilian monarchs. It was in this context that Afonso VII, in 1209 or 1210, ordered the construction of the fortress, simultaneously giving it a charter, in an attempt to consolidate population and military, which proved to be of relative importance in the following two centuries. Less than a century later, with the Treaty of Alcanices (1297), Castelo Melhor passed to the Portuguese crown

Location

Activity location

  • LOB_ACTIVITIESLOB_ACTIVITIESVale do Coa Archaeological Park
    • R. do Museu
    • 5150-610, Vila Nova de Foz Coa, Portugal

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLECentro de Recepção de Castelo Melhor
    • 1 Rua da Fábrica
    • 5150-118, Castelo Melhor, Guarda, Portugal

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