The present publication provides a transcription of the papers presented during the Workshop held to promote reflection on the possible uses of the sites used for purposes of State terrorism, bearing in mind the troubling relationship between the centers and the memories of those who passed through them and of society as a whole.

The Worshop – held on August 31, 2009, at the General San Martín Cultural Center with the support of the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience – comprised three panels: Memory and city: the transformation of urban spaces; Monuments: a means of memorialization in the city; and Experiences in the treatment of space in the reclaimed sites.