
Address: 1 Hoa Lo Street
Opening: 8:00 – 17:00
Price: 30.000 VND
On
Hai Ba Trung Street, next to the modern and busy Hanoi Tower is the notorious
prison complex called Hoa Lo.
The prison was built
by French colonialists in 1896 to house Vietnamese political
prisoners and later used by Vietnam to keep US prisoners of war