Museo delle Carceri

The Museum of the Prisons of Presidato Sistine located in an intermediate level between the ground floor and the first floor of the town hall, has built essential furnishings reconstructed on the basis of a Inventarium 1604 that together with Graffitii and drawings on the walls of the inmates cells, contributing to the recovery of the historical dimension of the environment. Inside it installed a sound system with which you tell the true stories of prisoners dramatized by a theater company. For more than four centuries have passed through this prison facility sometimes guilty of criminal offenses committed with the same objects of everyday agricultural work transmuted into dangerous offensive weapons: a rake, sickle … but also poor people, prisoners for debts incurred as a result of famines, epidemics etc.