Public building · Cuenca

Cárcel y tribunal de la Inquisición

Today: Archivo Histórico Provincial de Cuenca, Cuenca

Place: Cuenca
Kind: Public building
Built: 1574 to 1583
What remains: Standing
Visiting: Not checked

The building the Inquisition raised beside the remains of the castle, ceded by Felipe II in 1574, as a prison and tribunal; the inquisitors occupied it from 1583. In August 1812 the French blew up much of it, and it was the provincial prison until 1972. After a rehabilitation from 1985 to 1991, using reconstructive techniques, it is the seat of the Provincial Historical Archive.

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