Le Nuove Prison Museum, Turin

The historical-museum path offers a discovery of the most hidden places where ordinary men suffered for the affirmation of a free and democratic Italy, from Unification to the beginning of the Third Millennium.

The architectural structure features the individual segregation of cells, the panoptic system of the First Rotunda, the only remaining memory of the cubicles used by inmates in absolute silence. A mirror of society, it allows understanding of life deprived of freedom in a cell.

It recalls well-known criminal events, stories of fascists, the last death penalty execution in Italy, anti-fascist struggles, the resistance in the infamous first German wing, the testimony of universal values in the cells of those condemned to death, terrorism with the barbaric killing of four officers.

 A historical and civil heritage of humanity that must not be forgotten.