Are there age restrictions for visiting the Museum of Torture or the Capuchin Catacombs in Sicily?

Responds to Nadia Petrenko, Head of the Department of Italy, UK, Ireland of the Russian Express Company
The catacombs of the Capuchins are called the Museum of the Dead in Palermo. There are no age restrictions for visiting the museum.
Responds to Information department of "Subtlety of Tourism"
Unfortunately, information on age limits for visiting these places is not available - with the only amendment that it is strongly discouraged to go there people to impressionable .After the catacombs of Capuchin (Capuchin Catacombs of Palermo) or as they are called the Museum of the Dead in the city of Palermo in Sicily - an underground cemetery in the catacombs, in which open remains rest more than 8 thousand .human.This is one of the most famous exhibitions of mummies - skeletons, mummies, embalmed bodies of the dead lie, hang, hang, form songs .Perhaps one of the most serious shocks is the embalmed body of a two-year-old girl - they say, the catacomb caretaker went crazy, claiming that she is alive and blinking .The exposition is open from 9:00 to 12:00, the ticket price is 4 EUR .

But about the Museum of Torture or, as it is more correctly called the Museum of the Inquisition in Palermo, there is very little information: it is 16 chambers of the 17th century prison open in the palace of Steri where during the years of the inquisition hundreds of people were tortured .With the abolition of the Inquisition at the end of the 18th century, the documents of the prison were destroyed, but other evidence was preserved - inscriptions left by prisoners on the walls of the cells .They were in 1903 .During the restoration found historian Giuseppe Pitre .Particularly notable was the camera, in which, according to legend, the monk Diego La Matina killed his tormentor .Her first was opened for visits after the University of Palermo, which now owns the building, was able to obtain permission to open the museum of the Inquisition within these walls .

October 16, 2014

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