14th century prison

In 1356 a great urban fire burned a large part of the town, including the council house that had stood on Zaragoza Street since the 13th century. This forced to make the building where the prisons are, the current town hall, which was built during the second part of the fourteenth century. We find a large prison, with several cells and outbuildings. In Morella there were actually three prisons, one for each jurisdiction of the estamental society: ecclesiastical, military and royal. Morella has also been a place where banishment sentences were served, such as the one imposed on the Catalan lawyer Ferran Valls i Taberner, in 1926 as a member of the Board of the Barcelona Bar Association, who disobeyed the government order not to publish the Judicial Guide in Catalan.