Lazzaretto of Milan

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Descripcion foto: The Lazzaretto of Milan was built between the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century as a shelter for the sick during epidemics. It occupied an area delimited by today's Via San Gregorio, Via Lazzaretto, Viale Vittorio Veneto, and Corso Buenos Aires. It counted with 280 rooms with a large window to the inside, a large window with railings to communicate with the outside, a fireplace, a latrine, and a brick bed. Outside each room, there was a sacred painting, and a chapel was built in the center of the structure. It was divided into four parts, the first three intended respectively for the sick, the healed, and the suspects, while the last, located towards the city, for doctors, apothecaries, barbers, and other workers. The onset of new plagues made it necessary to use the enclosure: - between 1513 and 1516 the lazaret hosted more than two hundred sick and suspected people a year; - the plague of 1524 and that of 1576 made it necessary to build huts inside and outside the enclosure to accommodate the large number of sick people; - in 1629, due to famine in the Duchy of Milan, between 3500 and 9715 poor people gathered in the Lazzaretto to be helped with food. This led to an epidemic in the hospital that then spread in the city, causing between 70 and 110 deaths per day. Once the plague ended in 1632, a disinfection was carried out and the structure was mainly used for military purposes. With the growth of the city's population, the structure was increasingly inhabited, and from 1840 shops opened on the street. On 28 April 1881, the complex was purchased at auction and subdivided for the construction of new public buildings. Demolition began in the spring of 1882.

Website: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5d/Lazzaretto_milano_1880.jpg

Completado?: Y

Fecha: 1880

Copyright: Icilio Calzolari (1833-1906), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

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