Provincial Memorial Archives - Former D2 - Former Detention, Torture and Extermination Center
In this place is situated the Provincial Memory Archive and the headquarters of the Provincial Memory Commission (created by Law 9286, voted unanimously by legislators in 2006). These spaces were conquered through the unremitting struggle of human rights defense organizations and the public policies of the provincial state, oversaw through the Ministry of Justice and Human Rights.
These buildings hosted police offices linked to the social, political, cultural, and union persecution and repression; among them, the D2 Information Department of Cordoba Police, a main link to impose State Terrorism in the province, even before the military, ecclesiastic and civic coup d’état of March 24th, 1976.
The three colonial houses nearby are located at Santa Catalina Lane 66, meters from San Martin square, the historic Cabildo (Old City Hall) and the Cathedral. Today, there is a Memorial Hall that hosts cultural activities and training and research sessions aimed at promoting and defending Human Rights.
3d objects
Facade of one of the 3 houses located adjacent in the Santa Catalina passage, former headquarters of the Information Department of the Police of the Province of Córdoba (D-2).
Entrance to the former D-2, current memorial, and home of the Provincial Memorial Archives.
Dungeons door: cells where a large part of the detainees remained in inhuman conditions.
Door to two dungeons located in the internal patios of the former D2.
Concrete benches that link two internal patios of the former D2. A place known by the prisoners as the ‘little train’. That is where they waited handcuffed and blindfolded, to be interrogated.
Dungeon where one of the patios of the Memorial Archives is, it has writings on the walls from those who were imprisoned there.
Stairs that lead to the attic of the former D2.
How to get there
Most of the city busses run near this place or in the surrounding area of the main square (San Martin), located only meters from Santa Catalina Lane 66. Public transportation is paid with the RED BUS card that can be purchased at any newsstand in the city.
If departing from the city of the Arts, home of the Provincial University, visitors can walk through the Sarmiento Park, where places of interest are marked. It is a 40-minute walk.
Contact information
- Phone: (+54) 351 - 4342449
- Email: [email protected]
- Website: www.apm.gov.ar
- Social Media: Facebook: @archivo.provincialdelamemoriacba, Twitter and Instagram: @espaciosmemoriacordoba
Business Hours
- Open throughout the year, except in the month of January.
- Tuesday to Friday, 10 am to 3 pm.
- Free access.
Available Services
- Restrooms: YES
- Wheelchair access: In some areas.
- WiFi: YES
- Guided tours: NO
- Bar/coffee shop: YES
- ATM: within walking distance
Places of Interest
Paseo del Buen Pastor (Good Shepard’s Walk), building that belongs to the Cordoba’s Culture Agency (Hipólito Yrigoyen 325), is a recreational, retail, and cultural open multipurpose space in the heart of Nueva Cordoba neighborhood since 2007. It offers a variety of artistic and entertainment outdoor activities and exhibits and plays in the old chapel.
The place was the old Buen Pastor jail. The demolished building belonged to the Sisters of Our Lady of the Charity Buen Pastor de Angers Order. It was a women and minors correctional that was co-managed by Cordoba’s Penitentiary Service.
During the intervention of general Raúl Óscar Lacabanne (1974/75) in Cordoba, and the last military dictatorship (1976-1983), this correctional was a place to lock up political prisoners.
On May 24th, 1975, there was a spectacular jailbreak of 26 prisoners. After they went back to their clandestine political activity, nine of them were kidnaped and they are still missing. A bar stands in the place to symbolize this detention site and nine tiles represent the missing and murdered militants.
