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Nursing Home Snippendael (NL) – Up to the white light of eternity

March 10, 2019 by Pepper

Here, upon these ghostly shadows of men and women
There are no smiles
Singly, they mingle, with the greyness of the walls
And at strange angels, they travel on to nowhere

Mono Orphanage (IT) – Abandoned orphanage at the Italian-Swiss border.

December 8, 2018 by Pepper

Mono Orphanage, a.k.a. Crying Baby Hospital, is an abandoned orphanage at the Italian-Swiss border. Until the 1970s, nuns prayed, lived and taught to the orphans here. The children mainly came here to cure tuberculosis.

Grand Hotel Prealpi (IT) – The former Grand Hotel in Varese foothills of the Alps

November 25, 2018 by Pepper

The midsection of this building opened in 1912 as Grand Hotel Prealpi. During the First World War the two wings were added and it was converted into a military hospital.

Ospedale Psichiatrico di Volterra (IT) – This real life asylum of horrors is now an abandoned ruin that hides the unbreakable code to one patient’s insanity.

November 18, 2018November 18, 2018 by Pepper

Volterra Psychiatric Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital in the city of Volterra. Founded in 1888, the hospital was known for its brutal treatment of inmates. It remained open until 1978, when it was closed following the passage of Law 180, which directed the closing down of all existing psychiatric hospitals.

Salve Mater (BE) – Psychiatric Clinic, founded in 1920

March 4, 2017 by Pepper

This originally was a mental hospital which was run by a religious order.

Children’s Health Resort (HR) – Abandoned hospital in Croatia

February 17, 2017January 10, 2017 by Pepper

This abandoned structure in Krvavica was a Children’s Health Resort from 1964 until the end of the 80’s. Many of the children who stayed at the seaside resort by the Makarska Riviera suffered from asthma or so-called ‘weak lungs’.