45minutes
English, Italian
Unlimited
Historic building
Suitable for children
Suitable for couples
Pets allowed
Parking available
Barrier-free
Language supports
The ticket costs €5 without a guide
The ticket costs 10 € with guide
The ticket is free for children up to 10 years old, disabled visitors with accompanying person, European Community guides and interpreters, ICOM members, MIBACT employees, teachers accompanying school groups
The opening hours of the museum are Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday from 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.; Friday from 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.; Saturday, Sunday akle 10:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m., 4:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m.
The museum is closed on Mondays
D'Avalos Palace dominates Terra Murata. The former Prison on the island of Procida is an imposing building by the sea, built by the D'Avalos family.
D'Avalos Palace was built in the 1500s by the D'Avalos family, governors of the island until the 1700s.
D'Avalos with the construction of his Palace had the present access to Terra Murata built, whose village was accessible only from the beach of Asino after punta Lingua. Thanks to this connection came the urban development of the island with the birth of the settlement of the village of Corricella, the construction of the Convent of Santa Margherita Nuova and the present architecture of the Abbey of San Michele.
The Palazzo Signorile was from 1734 confiscated by the Bourbon rulers, who established there the first Royal hunting site for Charles III but particularly Ferdinand IV, before the construction of Capodimonte and the Royal Palace of Caserta. The monumental complex, after having been the Royal Palace of the Bourbons, was turned into a military school in 1815 and then in 1830 into a Kingdom prison. It was closed permanently only in 1988. The monumental complex consists of the D'Avalos Palace, the courtyard, the Guards Barracks, the Single Cell Building, Veterans Building, the Medicheria, the Warden's House, and the Spianata agricultural estate.
Today, a simple visit reveals it as a unique place, a place of the soul, in which there is a strong emotional tension. In fact, in the former prison everything is still there, between the cells and the Renaissance hallways, worn and stopped by time: the old uniforms, the shoes on the dusty floor and then the rusty cots, the cotton bales once worked in the factory, and even the crib for outpatient surgery. Everything seems to lie the same beneath the never really decayed beauty of wide vaults and capitals.
Cesare Rosaroll and Luigi Settembrini were detained in Procida Prison. After the fall of the republic of Salò, from 1945 to 1950, that is, until the Togliatti pardon, all the main leaders of the "fascist nomenclature," from Graziani, to Teruzzi, to Cassinelli, as well as Julio Valerio Borghese, were also locked up here.
