The former Chiarella Printing House complex has a total area of 2,400 square meters spread over several levels. It has taken on different connotations over the course of time from the 13th to the present: it arose as a city jail and remained so until the mid-19th century, then became the headquarters of the famous Clemente furniture factory at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries, and finally a printing press after World War II. Archaeological excavations have revealed the 14th-century walls, guards’ room, women’s section, and underground cells including the famous pit into which the most dangerous criminals were thrown.
