Visit the Torture Museum in Naples

Along a narrow alley in San Gregorio Armeno there is the Naples’ Torture museum, a unique collection of medieval torture tools used by the Catholic Inquisition in South Italy, a frightening but necessary journey through the history of Naples. 

This unusual museum was established by Paolo Lupo and his association named “Napoli Storia e Cultura”. 

The Naples’ torture museum has two floors (the lower floor is a basement) and includes all the torture tools used by the fearsome Catholic Inquisition to torture those who were thought to be witches or infidels. Obviously, Neapolitan people rebelled against the Inquisition. 

Each tool goes with a caption and an explanatory sketch, so that each visitor, even those with no guide, can clearly understand how cruel people can be when talking about hurting another human being, without any respect or dignity. 

A journey through the history of a city that rebelled against the Inquisition right in the core of its historic centre.