Museo Histórico Medieval
Museum in El Castell de Guadalest with more than seventy instruments of torture and capital punishment, in a building with a basement and three floors.
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About the museum
The Museo Histórico Medieval, also known as the Museum of Torture Instruments, is among the museums that the town council of El Castell de Guadalest includes in its tourist offer. It occupies a building with a basement and three floors on the Calle Honda and displays more than seventy pieces or instruments of torture and capital punishment, with the Middle Ages as its theme.
Among the objects on display are the garrotte (garrote vil) and devices of punishment such as the Judas cradle, the rack (potro) and the heretic's fork.
Highlights
- More than seventy instruments of torture and capital punishment
- Garrote vil (garrotte)
- Judas cradle, rack and heretic's fork
- Building with a basement and three floors
Permanent exhibition
- Instrumentos de tortura y pena capital – More than seventy pieces or instruments of torture and capital punishment, spread across a building with a basement and three floors.
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