Pitesti Prison Memorial — Attraction in Pitești

I've been trying to get there for a while. After reading and studying this for a while the moment has come.

Even the prison was bigger in the past, now only a part of it can be visited, the rest being owned by private companies which remodelled the rooms accordingly. The association that takes care of the museum is self sustained one so the contribution is recommended. I chose guided tours as I wanted to offer support as well. The rooms are not having so many description but 1 big poster with images and details in each room is enough to make you understand what happened there.

Only the idea of Pitești being one of the most horrible prisons of the Romanian communist regime makes you feel threatened. Having goosebumps especially while visiting the actual small church inside, where a lot of theological students, law and medicine students, intelectual ones, were tortured, beaten and mentally abused for many times.

Huge round of appreciations for the guide, very nice performance. Only suggestion would be to make it more personally, many times the speech looked only like a school lesson.

Overall nice experience which I...

Not sure if it was stopped or is now happening in bigger scale. Unfortunately I cant answer to your question so I edit my review. The building itself is a perfect memorial for this episode of history. the guide was very informative and gave good insight in the daily routine of the prisoners. One thing that made me sad is, that you have to make appointments for the english tour, because nowadays it is no problem to give a tour via app in different languages. I had no problem to understand the guide because I had proper hardware to translate the written texts and I know a little bit of romanish language. The other thing is, that the information I got there is very disturbing, but sometimes it looks like some politicians play the same games nowadays via media with all of us in real life. All in all it was a very good tour, but as I wrote before, it could be more efficient for foreigners to listen to in the native language to get full experience. Thanks...

We had a great visit! It is definitely worth to visit, especially with the guided tour as strolling around won’t help much as you need a knowledgable person to take you through all the stories that have happened in there. Oana is (with no exaggeration) the best guide I ever met, and she combined a serious topic with some “fun” parts so it does not get depressing. She managed to keep our attention the whole 2 hours of the tour. She read so many books about the Pitesti experiment matter, hence she was able to answer each question I had, no matter the complexity. Also, we were a mix of Polish and Romanian group, reason why she did her first English tour with us and it was amazing. If this was her first one, I cannot imagine how good the next ones will be! Thanks Oana for all the great time and thanks for spending such a long time with us, even after the...