Museums and Palaces

Carção Jewish Museum

The Carção Jewish Museum is a small space about the memory and the Marrana life (term of Spanish origin, referring to Jews forced to convert to Christianity, but who professed the Jewish faith in secret) and the culture of the crypto-Jews who, driven away by the imposition of an orthodox Judaism, created their own forms of religiosity.

The collection of epigraphic and household materials related to crypto-Judaism is noteworthy. A lintel with a carved Lion of Judah, saved from a ruined building, stands out.

It also highlights a very significant collection of prayers that the Jews of Carção used to say in the 16th to 18th centuries.

A long memorial lists the names of the inhabitants of Carção whom the Inquisition arrested and imprisoned.