Presidio Modelo
The Presidio Modelo was a "model prison" with panopticon design, built on the Isla de Pinos, now the Isla de la Juventud, in Cuba. It is located in the suburban quarter of Chacón, Nueva Gerona.Photo: Friman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Friman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Friman, Public domain.
Presidio Modelo
- Type: Prison
- Description: former prison on Isle of Pines (Isla de la Juventud), Cuba
- Category: government building
- Location: Isla de la Juventud, Western Cuba, Cuba, Caribbean, North America
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Presidio Modelo” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “السجن النموذجي (كوبا)”
- Arabic: “السجن النموذجي”
- Armenian: “Պրեսիդո Մոդելո”
- Catalan: “Presidio Modelo”
- Chinese: “模范监狱”
- Dutch: “Presidio Modelo”
- Esperanto: “Modela Prizono”
- Finnish: “Presidio Modelo”
- French: “Presidio Modelo”
- German: “Presidio Modelo”
- Haitian: “Presidio Modelo, Isla de la Juventud”
- Indonesian: “Presidio Modelo”
- Italian: “Presidio Modelo”
- Japanese: “プレシディオ・モデーロ”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Presidio Modelo”
- Norwegian: “Presidio Modelo”
- Polish: “Presidio Modelo”
- Portuguese: “Presídio Modelo”
- Romanian: “Presidio Modelo”
- Russian: “Пресидио Модело”
- Russian: “Пресидио-Модело”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Presidio Modelo”
- Spanish: “Presidio Modelo”
- Swedish: “Presidio Modelo”
- Ukrainian: “Пресідіо Модело”
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