Madhouse

It was 1873 when, after a cholera epidemic, the building became a refuge for the sick, later a psychiatric hospital.    Over time,  the hospital also welcomed prostitutes,  vagabonds and abandoned children. A place of great despair and degradation, exhausting rounds for nurses and  episodes  of  violence against patients. 

Thanks to the Basaglia law in 1978 the process  for   the final closure began.





Madhouse
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