San Gimignano is a small walled medieval hill town in Tuscany, north-central Italy, the scenery of this small town is amazing, but for Choumeizai, the most impressive is the horrendous ‘torture’.
Museum of Torture (Italian:Museo della torture) is located in a small building next to the main gate of the town, very easy to miss it.
The admission fee is 10 Euro per person, quite expensive, the first ‘torture’ has already begun even before getting in, terrible indeed.
The museum is not big, but the atmosphere is gloomy and spooky, more horrible, the whole museum only has one visitor, Choumeizai.
The museum displays many medieval torture instruments such as guillotine, crucifix and Iron Maiden, you can feel the pain of the people being tortured even by looking only.
The end of the museum stands a masked man, Choumeizai suspects that he is an actor or a kind of stunt to scare the visitors, but it doesn’t look as he thinks when getting close, at last Choumeizai still doesn’t dare to confirm, leaving it a mystery.
The dungeon is a real torture room which has been used in the past, the cruelest torture is starving a man in a extremely small space, the wall are covered with countless scratches from the hopeless dead men, very horrible.
Perhaps the most horrible thing is, all these exhibits are not just stage props, but the real torture instruments which has been imposed on human bodies, human beings are really the cruelest and most horrible animals in the world.
Museo della torture
Address: Via S. Giovanni, 82, 53037 San Gimignano SI, Italy
Tel.: +39 0577 940151
Website:www.torturemuseum.it
