The Conciergerie in Paris was a medieval palace, a court and then a prison. Of particular interest it is where Marie-Antoinette was both tried and imprisoned during the French Revolution. She was executed, and her former cell is now a chapel.
The vaulted halls of the palace
Jailer’s stark cell
This is supposedly the prison where Socrates was incarcerated after he annoyed the Athenian government. Nobody really know whats its original purpose was, but in World War 2 it was used to hide the antiquities of the Acropolis and the National Archaeological Museum from German looters.
You can find it on Philoppapos hill, about 100m down the path after the cross the road at the Acropolis bus park.
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