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Museo Penitenciario

TIME : 2016/2/19 14:20:04

Dating from 1760, this building was a convent and later a women’s prison before it became a penal museum in 1980; reconstructed old jail cells give an idea of the prisoners’ conditions. Don’t miss the homemade playing cards and shivs, plus the tennis balls used to hide drugs.

Next door, the neocolonial and baroque Iglesia Nuestra Señora de Belén was a Jesuit school until 1767, when the Bethlemite order took it over.