Museo de Historia Medieval de la Curia-Preso, s.XIV Info and Reviews

Fantastic experience: 1€ for entry. It's worth it
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Fantastic experience: Must-visit museum as soon as you step into Castelló d'Empúries, among other things, ah!... And a very good reception
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Fantastic experience: I recommend it for a visit!!! The prisons are impressive...
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Fantastic experience: Magnificent
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Fantastic experience: Nice museum, price 1€/person! Recommended
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Fantastic experience: A very interesting place with a really nice guy at the reception.
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Fantastic experience: In particular, the dungeons impressed us a lot. It gave the feeling of a little time travel. Definitely worth seeing. Technically well equipped in various languages and with a lot of interesting information. Prices are very good.
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Fantastic experience: A museum surprise, especially the prison part, price 1 euro, the attention received upon arrival was excellent, just a few minutes from free parking, while strolling through its streets you can reach the museum, informational panels in all the rooms, recommended visit, worth it if you are in Castelló d'Empúries.
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Fantastic experience: Small well-made museum, you learn a lot about the history of the region. Plan for an hour, the fee of 2 euros for 2 is not worth missing out on. An audio device in your language is provided for the visit.
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Fantastic experience: Don’t miss it!!! And take advantage of the guided tours offered by the museum!!
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Positive experience: The museum is very good. The bad thing is that all the information is written only in Catalan. The video they show at the beginning of the visit is in several languages.
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Positive experience: It is really worth recommending. Anyone there should take a calm look at it.
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Fantastic experience: For just €1/person, we have traveled back in time. Thanks to its great restoration, we have been able to feel the history, enter the cells, and learn about the hard life of our ancestors.
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Fantastic experience: In our country, we have true gems.
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Fantastic experience: Essential if you visit Castellón. Affordable price.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting! And the building is very special! History comes alive here!
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Positive experience: Very nice experience, I recommend that if you can, you visit during the medieval festival that always takes place on the weekend around September 10, the city transforms. Guaranteed return to the Middle Ages.
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Fantastic experience: A review of the history of the County of Empúries with special attention to the Jewish Call and the prison.
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Positive experience: It would be interesting to have explanations in other languages and not just in Catalan in most brochures and some signage. Both in the museum and in the village.
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Fantastic experience: History of Castelló d'Empúries since its beginnings, visit to a medieval prison. Highly recommended.
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Positive experience: Beautiful and quiet museum worth a visit, the most notable thing is that you can visit the oldest prison in Catalunya.
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Fantastic experience: Very nice experience. A walk through medieval history.
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Fantastic experience: It was a very impressive experience, a great museum to learn more about history. I can only recommend it, and the entrance prices are fair. The history of the city and the development of the prison are explained through an audioguide in various languages, as well as its surroundings. Very impressive. Thank you.
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Positive experience: History of the castle of Empuries and the Condador through the building of les corts and the prison. Interesting.
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Fantastic experience: We shared a tour around the village of Castelló d'Empúries with a small group, accompanied by a good guide who took us to the main historical sites of the village, such as the walls, part of the castle, the Jewish quarter with its first synagogue, the medieval history museum with its underground works; honestly, it was a great cultural visit, I recommend it.
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Fantastic experience: We shared a tour of the village of Castelló d'Empúries with a small group, accompanied by a good guide, who took us through the main historical sites of the village, such as the walls, part of the castle, the Jewish quarter, with its first synagogue, the medieval history museum, with its more underground works, the truth is it was a good cultural visit, I recommend it.
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Fantastic experience: A beautiful story, I am from the region of France.
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Fantastic experience: Very well preserved and you can take the tour with an audioguide although everything is explained. Very affordable price. It's worth a visit.
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Fantastic experience: very interesting museum for those passionate about the medieval era
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Positive experience: Museum of the history of the countable and Jewish people, and also the prison. It is a small but very interesting museum where you can see what medieval prisons were like in the 14th century and learn about the whole history. Quick to see since it is small, but it is worth it and essential if you visit Castelló d'Empúries.
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Positive experience: Very good history lesson
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Positive experience: A visit to learn about the history of Empuriabrava.
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Positive experience: A museum worth seeing and very curious.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting, highly recommended.
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Fantastic experience: Incredible and fascinating the history of Catalunya, thank you for teaching me the true history
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Fantastic experience: Beautiful. And even better at a party.
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Fantastic experience: Fantastic place to visit once a year with friends
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Positive experience: If you love the history of the place where you spend your vacation, this museum will be essential for Empuriabrava. I just found the video in the upstairs room a bit long, but the prison with the engravings of prisoners from the time sent chills down my spine, I loved the atmosphere of this passage, super top!
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Positive experience: We were at the theatrical visit. The actor had to cut himself short because we were with children. The visit is recommended but better for adults only.
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Fantastic experience: Highly recommended. Quick to see. With audio guide.
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Positive experience: For those who love museums, this is a must. PS: the device they give you at the entrance (translator) requires you to enter the number written on the photos, they don't tell you.
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Fantastic experience: Simple and easy to understand.
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Fantastic experience: A nice and inexpensive little historical museum. Audio guide in French.
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Positive experience: Not much to see, just the prison, but it's worth a look nonetheless
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Fantastic experience: A must-see! Small museum to visit for €2.50 with headphones in French. Medieval prison quite well preserved. Not bad at all. The entry ticket to this museum gives you one euro off at the basilica.
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Fantastic experience: To see, very interesting, the history of Spain
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Fantastic experience: Very good. Nice welcome.
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Fantastic experience: It is a nice place to visit
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Fantastic experience: Very clean, great attention, very good facilities, and 50 meters from the beach
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Fantastic experience: Small museum very interesting. ....modest entry fee 2 euros 50.....visit lasts about 1 hour....you are offered a headset to follow your path....10 kilometers from Roses.....then visit the cathedral.
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Positive experience: Charming village, local museum. Contains many details, ancient pieces from the Jewish heritage in this area and from the passage of the Romans. Recreation of cells and prison in the basement, curiosities about the punishment roulette, old jail.
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Positive experience: What a great welcome, medieval historical museum available in several languages, worth noting, it can be inconvenient with a stroller, baby carrier recommended.
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Fantastic experience: Very well placed and documented ...
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Positive experience: It looks immediately interesting if you like history, there's a lack of more information like in the town and it should open on more holidays.
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Fantastic experience: Very good
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Fantastic experience: Interesting place
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Fantastic experience: History
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Positive experience: Very interesting
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Fantastic experience: Very cool, don't miss visiting if you're in the area.
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Fantastic experience: It is a very interesting place, with a lot of information about how medieval prisons were, a recommended visit for going with children!
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Positive experience: Very interesting content of the audiovisual applications.
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Fantastic experience: Impressive!
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting
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Positive experience: It's very good
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Positive experience: They told us it closed at 4:00 PM and we couldn't visit it.
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Positive experience: We enjoyed the experience
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Positive experience: We had a theatrical visit, super fun. Eric, you are awesome, you give a thousand times more value to the museum, which although small, you make it very big when you (re)present it. I only request better coordination between the tourism office and the organizers, since the information provided to us indicated that the visit was in Spanish, and while Eric made an effort to do it in Spanish, we saw that it was not appreciated by other visitors who requested information exclusively in Catalan, and we could have avoided an awkward situation.
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Fantastic experience: The guy who performs is an amazing theater actor! Honor roll! We loved it.
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Positive experience: Beautiful discovery
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Positive experience: Excellent place to learn how the curia and prisons were in the medieval times, we chose the theatricalized entrance, highly recommended, an actor represents the jailer and explains how the curia worked, what happened inside the cells, how the prisoners lived, and the tortures they were subjected to, the drawings on the walls and their explanation, then a visit to the museum with the same actor. I do not recommend it for small children, as they may get a little scared by the performance. The price was 8€ per person.
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Fantastic experience: Small but interesting museum to understand the local history and of the county of Empúries
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Positive experience: Very interesting
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Fantastic experience: Everything is fine and entertaining.
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Fantastic experience: Very good
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Positive experience: Taking advantage of the open house day with the family, we had a good time. Now we are looking forward to the September festivities, they're epic!!!
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Fantastic experience: Interesting to visit
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Fantastic experience: Very informative
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Positive experience: Very interesting museum, as are many Europeans.
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Positive experience: Very old institution well documented
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Positive experience: It's a neat little museum that tells the story of Empúries. It costs 2.5 euros to enter. This is an acceptable price in relation to what you experience at the museum. You are guided around the museum for about 45 minutes and end up in what used to be a prison. This is absolutely the most worth seeing in the museum. All the text is in Catalan and there are no translations. However, you can borrow a small narrator that speaks English.

Fantastic experience: A great museum. Very special and very interesting. If you want to know how prisoners lived in the medieval times, you have to come.
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Positive experience: You can be part of a guided tour, 'when the stones speak to us', highly recommended and with a little tasting of garnacha at the end.
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Positive experience: It is located in the old legal-criminal complex of the Curia and medieval prison built in the 14th century. The building was for centuries the Court of the General Audience of the County of Empuries, the ordinary court of the town, jail, county public notary, and also the headquarters of the archive of the Counts of Empúries.
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Positive experience: Combined with the visit to the Gothic church, it's a walk through the village and it is interesting, although I think the information, beyond the prison, is somewhat scarce. In any case, for children, it is instructive to see how prisons were and we all discovered interesting details about the Middle Ages that we didn't know, such as the types of punishments that were established or how the jailer received payments from the prisoners and had the right to have the female prisoners clean his quarters. Overall, interesting and affordable.
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Positive experience: The girl at the ticket office is very nice
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Positive experience: In the city center, parking nearby. Open on Saturday from 4:30 PM to 7:00 PM, the visit is free during the lockdown period.
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Fantastic experience: Explanations in English would be a plus
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Fantastic experience: very beautiful, to be honest
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Fantastic experience: Perfectly preserved, the prison is the best
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Fantastic experience: Fantastic, very interesting
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Positive experience: It's fine.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting to know.
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Positive experience: A quite interesting museum to visit with a very pleasant receptionist
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Fantastic experience: Highly recommendable
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting and fun for kids
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Fantastic experience: We did a theatrical guided tour on Saturday afternoon, and with the actor's explanations, we were impressed. Catalonia has a lot of history.
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Fantastic experience: Beautiful History Museum of the town
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Fantastic experience: It's really cool
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Fantastic experience: A lot to see. Nice walk. Worth seeing.
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Fantastic experience: Small well-organized museum, interesting, and frankly for the price, €2.50 including the audioguide, you shouldn't miss it.
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Positive experience: A museum of the kind I like, medieval history, where you can see the history of Castelló de Ampurias, which became the capital of the county of Ampurias. You can see the cells where the prisoners of the time lived poorly, it also served as a court where the fate they faced was decided. It is very well set up, it feels like you are in the medieval age.
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Fantastic experience: The restoration is very good and the history is very well explained
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Fantastic experience: Essential to understand the history of the town and what its county used to be.
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Positive experience: Highly recommended museum, cheap and quick to visit. They give discounts with a student and teacher ID. A must-stop if you're in the area.
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Fantastic experience: A spectacular museum, it is a must-visit if you like history and are coming to Empordà or if you live here, to learn more about the history of the place. The girl at the reception is very friendly and attentive.
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Positive experience: Magnificent museum. The old cells are impressive.
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Positive experience: The museum and the village are wonderful
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Fantastic experience: Perfect medieval enclave
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Fantastic experience: We love the basilica
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Fantastic experience: Great cultural and historical interest
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Positive experience: Very interesting
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Positive experience: Interesting history, unfortunately everything is in Catalan but at least there is an audio guide in Spanish.
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Fantastic experience: Excellent setup of the museum, very interesting and well documented the journey through the medieval history of Castellón de Ampurdias, I was struck by the reference to Duke William of Aquitaine, an icon of French medieval poetry.
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Positive experience: Nice small museum cheap 2.5€ to see
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Fantastic experience: Impressive
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Positive experience: Small museum very well equipped. Explanations of medieval life and the county of Empúries are excellent. Good value for money.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting
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Fantastic experience: Fantastic explanation from the guide, very interesting. It conveys her passion for the medieval world in Castelló d'Empúries.
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Positive experience: As little curious to see
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Positive experience: It wasn't bad, well restored, very clean, inexpensive, around 2.5 euros, very good welcome. The downside is that the audio guide and the numbered route derived from it are rather chaotic. The video is almost inaudible, but it remains a place worth seeing. Doing it normally, it takes about 1 hour and 30 minutes.
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Fantastic experience: Amazing.
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Fantastic experience: Super
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Positive experience: Interesting
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Fantastic experience: Excellent for learning about a medieval prison and the history of the County of Empúries and Castle. At an affordable price. It's worth watching the 14-minute video found on the first floor about the history of the county.
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Positive experience: Amazing!!!!!
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Fantastic experience: Very beautiful medieval museum that you must absolutely see, ridiculous price of 2.50
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Positive experience: For small children, it is a bit scary. Lots of information in the audio guides. The price is totally okay. The history of the region is presented well.
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Fantastic experience: I loved the prison
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Positive experience: Nice little museum. Worth a look.

Positive experience: Very good for history lovers. You stroll through the different rooms of the prison with a dictaphone in your ear (multiple languages). Visit difficult for children but they will surely love the dungeons and the portrayal of a prisoner and his jailer.
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Positive experience: A museum that is larger than it seems upon entering. They explain a part of history very well and you see the dungeons very well preserved.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting.
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting. We liked it a lot!!
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Fantastic experience: Very interesting!!
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