Expired Psychiatric Hospital located in northern Italy.
Built in the 1930s and completed in 1937 , at the time one of the largest psychiatric hospitals in Italy.
The whole complex consisted of more than 20 different buildings including patients' quarters, experimental wards, family rooms, theater, church and many more.
It seems that this was not one of the nicest places to be treated and there were many rumors about how badly patients were treated here.
The government decided in the late 1970s not to keep these ''psychiatric institutions'' open any longer and to treat the needy in other ways.
Nowadays the whole area is pretty much closed off and we had some trouble gaining access.
The state of the whole is pretty bad and in many places as leaky as a basket.
You literally walk among the many patient files, computers, photographs and other personal belongings left behind.
The photo shown here shows a view into one of the many corridors in which the light from outside shines beautifully on the colorfully painted walls, doors and window frames.
What must it have been like here 80 years ago ????
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