The pillory and the Palace of the Pillory, in the Portuguese town of Golegã.
The pillory itself was erected somewhere in the mid.-XVI Century (probably, shortly after 1534), and remade three centuries later, circa 1857.
Despite its name, the palace is not directly related with the pillory - it just happens to have been built behind it, in Golegã's main square. The Palace of the Pillory was (probably) built during the XVII (or, perhaps, XVIII) Century, and all over the years, it has been used as a city hall, jail, court of law, telegraph office, a museum dedicated to the work of master Martins Correia, and, at some point, it was even the State Department (Secretary of State) of Agriculture. Nowadays, this is place is, allegedly, home of the Golegã Polytechnic Studies Centre, but I am not sure if this institution is actually operational or not (I suspect it isn't).
The statue next to the palace is a work from Joaquim Martins Correia (1910-1999), a modernist artist from Golegã.
On the opposite side of the Immaculate Conception Square, we can find Golegã’s most famous monument, its amazing Parish Church (lower photo).
