One of the few preserved Gothic monuments in Prešov, which was built between 1504 and 1509. The building served the wine bar as a warehouse for barrels and other accessories probably until the end of the 17th century, but in archival records from 1530 it is also mentioned as one of Prešov's prisons, thanks to its proximity to the town hall. It was named after the Prešov Bloody Massacre of 1687, when 24 Hungarian landowners and townspeople were ignominiously executed in the square near the Ev. College on the basis of an unjust trial by the imperial general Antonio Caraffa of Naples. One of the Prešov torture chambers, which Caraffa had set up for the interrogation of the accused, was also located in the underground premises of today's town hall, which at that time formed one architectural unit with the building. According to some written records, the building was used to store the town's weights and measures and for a time it also housed the town armoury. In the second half of the 19th century it was the town prison. From the beginning of the 20th century, the building began to be used for archiving municipal documents. Nowadays it serves as the town gallery.
Map
Gallery
