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Madness Locked Away: the Insane Asylum Museum of San Servolo
Inaugurated in 2006, first asylum museum in Italy, houses items from the Psychiatric Hospital, an institution that marked the history of the island from the early 1700s to 1978
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San Servolo, a rediscovered island
The artistic and scientific heritage of San Servolo during the Asylum's period has remained a silent witness to the practices of psychiatric confinement. Now on the Island reopened to citizens, the ancient spaces will tell a a story perhaps forgotten but not erased
The Military Hospital and the Apothecary
Monks, remedies, surgeons and soldiers: San Servolo at the time of the Serenissima
Insanity lands on the island
Maniacs recluded in San Servolo during the eighteenth century
The stones of San Servolo
Historical artistic itinerary of the island
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