Travel website www.touropia.com recently updated its list of the world’s top 10 historic and famous prisons— including the Hoa Lo Prison (Maison Centrale) in Hanoi in the No.10 slot.
The prison was originally built by the French to house political prisoners and later used for POWs during the Vietnam War. In 1999 a Hilton Hotel opened in Hanoi and was carefully named the Hilton Hanoi Opera Hotel. Rounding out the list of top 10 include Alcatraz- the most famous prison in the US Tower of London, in UK Devil’s Island in France Chateau d’If in France Goree Island in Senegal Robben Island in Cape Town, South Africa Elmina Castle in Ghana Port Arthur in Tasmania, Australia and Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum in Cambodia. |
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