Hospitals

World Heritage Sites connected to 'Hospitals':

  • Aapravasi Ghat Hospital Block
  • Auschwitz Birkenau The Nazis set up a number of "Hospitals" or "infirmaries" witthin the camp. Auschwitz I had "block 19, the Schonungsblock for convalescent prisoners; block 20, the contagious diseases block; block 21, the surgical block; and block 28, the internal medicine block." In reality of course the "treatment" included medical experimentation and selection for execution. Insofar as it existed at all it was aimed at "reducing the prisoner death rate—in relation to prisoners who seemed likely to return to labor in a short time." See ; link
  • Brugge Saint John's Hospital
  • Cistercian Abbey of Fontenay
  • Cuenca Hospital of Santiago
  • Divrigi
  • Florence Santa Maria Nuova Hospital
  • Hospicio Cabañas, Guadalajara
  • Island of Mozambique Holy House of Mercy - former hospital
  • Maritime Greenwich Greenwich Naval College was originally built as the "Royal Hospital for Sailors"
  • Mérida Xenodochium
  • Naples Ospedale L'Albergo Reale dei Poveri
  • Nesvizh Used as a sanitorium during the Soviet era
  • Old City of Jerusalem Historical hospital at the Muristan
  • Palau de la Música Catalana & Hospital de Sant Pau
  • Paris, Banks of the Seine Les Invalides
  • Route of Santiago de Compostela
  • Routes of Santiago de Compostela in France
  • Salamanca Hospital del Estudio (dates from 15th century, now part of the University)
  • Saltaire The "Sir Titus Salt" hospital was built in 1868 as part of Salt's philanthropic vision for the town - "Salts hospital was opened in 1868 as a casualty ward for accidents in the Mill and then developed into a small hospital." It is now converted into flats (apartments).
  • Sanctuary of Asklepios at Epidaurus Asklepios was the Greek god of medicine, this site has temples devoted to him and hospital buildings
  • Santa Cruz de Mompox San Juan de Dios Hospital was founded in 1550, and is considered to be oldest hospital in America still functioning in its original building.
  • Santo Domingo Hospital San Nicolás de Bari (first hospital built of stone in the Americas)
  • Sewell Mining Town Old Hospital
  • Stone Town (Zanzibar) The Old Dispensary - built originally as a hospital but seems never have been used as such; link
  • Toledo Hospital Santa Cruz
  • Venice and its Lagoon Hospital complex on Castello