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Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port - Bishop's Prison
This current and recent name combines two distinct historical realities, the presence of Bishops of Bayonne during the Western Schism and prison vocation attested from the eighteenth century. The entrance opens onto a guard monitoring of disciplinary cells. A small staircase leads to a vast medieval vaulted room. Permanent exhibition: History of research, evocation of the route to St Jacques in the Middle Ages
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