Discover the 16th century prisons of the Venetian Republic, one of the earliest jails in Europe, built in 1500 and linked to the Doge’s Palace through the famous Bridge of Sighs. Nowadays the Palace, that overlooks the stunning Riva Degli Schiavoni, is home of an important Venetian cultural institution.
The Palace is “populated” by life-size figures of the Lords of the Night, prisoners, Judges, Lawyers and all the characters who worked in the Prisons, painstakingly drawn from ancient manuscripts.
An amazing itinerary in which you will be accompanied through places never visited until now: enter in the torture room and you will see the authentic devices used in the past to force the prisoners to confess! You will go down and into the dark cells, where you will discover the lifestyle of the prisoners, what they ate, drank and where they slept. See the authentic graffiti left by the inmates and listen about the exciting Casanova’s jailbreak: he managed to escape from the maximum-security jail known as “Piombi”!
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