Historical relic Son La Prison & Son La Museum

About Son La

Thứ Tư, 24/07/2024 10:57 GMT+7

Son La Prison is located right in the center of Son La town, on top of Khau Ca hill, which has a panoramic view of Son La town. This is a famous historical site associated with Son La Museum and creates a tourist attraction visited by many tourists.

Son La Prison is famous among French colonial prisons as a steel prison, a hell on earth, a place that breaks the fighting spirit of communists. However, for the Vietnamese revolution, Son La Prison is a school of revolutionary struggle, a place to forge, train and provide the revolutionary movement with elite communists like comrades: Truong Chinh. , Le Duan, Nguyen Luong Bang, Van Tien Dung, Song Hao Nguyen Co Thach, Xuan Thuy, Tran Huy Lieu...

Visiting the Son La Prison and Museum relic complex, visitors will feel the barbarity of the French colonialists through historical evidence and be impressed by the endurance, training, and struggle of the soldiers. political prisoners, as well as hearing touching stories about the activities of the Son La prison party cell such as solidarity and mutual aid activities, propaganda of revolutionary enlightenment inside and outside the prison, and organization of political struggles. fighting for prisoners' rights, organizing prison escapes, activities of elite Party officials such as comrades Truong Chinh, Nguyen Luong Bang, Tran Huy Lieu, Le Thanh Nghi, Tran Quoc Hoan,... and especially about comrade To Hieu, a revolutionary soldier who made many contributions to the activities of the prison Party cell, who breathed his last here. To commemorate the great contributions of comrade To Hieu, the Son La prison cell had a stone stele engraved with the word To Hieu secretly placed under his grave. The peach tree named To Hieu planted next to the solstice grave has become a symbol of the vitality of the Vietnamese revolution.

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