Coriscada is a freguesia

Freguesia

Freguesia is the Portuguese term for a secondary local administrative unit in Portugal and some of its former colonies, and a former secondary local administrative unit in Macau, roughly equivalent to an administrative parish. A freguesia is a subdivision of a concelho, the Portuguese synonym term...

 (parish) of Portugal

Portugal

Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...

, in the municipality of Mêda

Mêda

Mêda is a municipality in Portugal with a total area of and a total population of 6,000 inhabitants. The city of Mêda has a population of 2,004.It was promoted to city in December 2004.-Municipality:...

, in Guarda district.
A typical interior village of Portugal, it extends itself over 25.33 km² and has about 246 inhabitants(by 2001).
Extremely rich in 17th century patrimony, the village has been quite divulged on the last few years over the discovery of a Roman

Ancient Rome

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 villa

Villa

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 (Vale do Mouro

Vale do Mouro

The Vale do Mouro , located in the present day municipality of Meda, has been excavated since 2003 by archaeologists. Thus far, these excavations have revealed Roman baths, a tiled patio with figurative elements, spear points, pottery, coins, building elements, among other artifacts.Archaeological...

) nearby, currently being studied by a luso

Portuguese people

The Portuguese are a nation and ethnic group native to the country of Portugal, in the west of the Iberian peninsula of south-west Europe. Their language is Portuguese, and Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion....

-french

French people

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 team (since 2003).

More details on this village and its activities on the site of Coriscada's Cultural Center (in Portuguese

Portuguese language

Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...

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