Museo de la Cárcel Real

Extremadura


Once the town prison, this 17th-century building houses Coria's tiny two-storey archaeological museum, with artefacts dating from prehistoric to medieval times. Step inside the dark, poky celda del castigo (punishment cell), then see how the cushy 1st-floor cells differed from the plebs' prison below.


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