A guided tour of the grounds of the former Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) to explore its history, focusing on its operation as a Clandestine Center for Detention, Torture, and Extermination (CCDTyE) and its reclamation as a Space of Memory. The tour includes a visit to the Memory Site Museum, which operated as the country's largest clandestine torture and disappearance unit during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship, where more than 5,000 people were held.
A guided tour of the grounds of the former Navy Mechanics School (ESMA) to explore its history, focusing on its operation as a Clandestine Center for Detention, Torture, and Extermination (CCDTyE) and its reclamation as a Space of Memory. The tour includes a visit to the Memory Site Museum, which operated as the country's largest clandestine torture and disappearance unit during the 1976–1983 military dictatorship, where more than 5,000 people were held.
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