Former Bourbon prison, now a branch of the Superintendent of B.A.A.A.S. Salerno and Avellino, represents the city of Avellino a rather unique monument and discussed. The walls surrounding the five branches of the Bourbon prison for some time been the focus of various institutional bodies. They represented a sort of barrier, which for over two centuries has isolated the town from the rest of the city prison. The prison, since its construction, has done much to talk about themselves. The theory of the philosopher Jeremy Bentham, "few men in a few vantage points to see so many people," was expertly applied by the engineer Julian de Fazio, last planner and executor of the work. A safer prison, again in 1839, they dug the great moat and the Engineer Massari threw a drawbridge that connects the jail to the outside, beyond the wall. These precedents make clear, thus the ratio of uniqueness and complementarity that binds to the panoptic prison wall. And 'in this context, cultural and political society COEDIL SUD worked in 1988, establishing a profitable synergy with the contracting authority.
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