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Some of you might have heard of Volterra through a popular vampire book series but Volterra as a lot of dark secrets without someone using it in a fictional book. Volterra now a popular tourist destination with medieval nights, Jazz festivals and lots of little alabaster shops was once the home to one of Italy’s biggest psychiatric hospitals. At its peak the hospital housed over 4000 patients and had everything from a bakery to its very own farm. The main hospital that you can see in Volterra is only a part of what was once a place to put people who suffered from depression all the way up to those that didn’t quite know what time of it was. The buildings hidden in the woodlands behind the (now) main hospital have been left to graffiti artist, photographers and all sorts of people to squeeze through the fence and explorer the hidden past of Volterra. Photos can been seen here on Google images and information found here on Wikipedia. While you are looking into this strange place you will come across the name NOF4 this man who was a patient scraped a series of graffiti into the walls of the hospital using a belt buckle from the hospital uniform. This graffiti is now considered a masterpiece. |
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September 2019
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