Manicomio di Colorno, Abandoned Asylum, Italy

Manicomio di C, Italy

An abandoned mental asylum in Italy with large grand entrance halls. One room still contains items for performing electroshock treatments.

Visited April 2015  Italy Colorno, Emilia-Romagna, Italy Abandoned

Manicomio di Colorno, or Asylum of Colorno is an abandoned asylum in Italy that was used to treat people with mental illnesses. The buildings are expansive, and appear to have been expanded over the years. The original building features a large grand entrance hall with high ceiling and stained glass in the doorway.

Upstairs the corridors meet at another large hallway, and in the other direction lead to many small rooms where patients would have received treatments. Heading further into the building the rooms become much more like cells, with small windows in the doors for checking on the patients.

A room with a medical bed and head restraint remains with electrical items by its side, where maybe some kind of barbaric electroshock therapy would have been performed.

Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Light pours through stained glass window into the grand entrance hall
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Light pours through stained glass window into the grand entrance hall
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Wheelchair in entrance hall
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Wheelchair in entrance hall
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Arched hallway
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Arched hallway
 
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Grand entrance
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Grand entrance
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Grand entrance
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Grand entrance
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Messy corridor
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Messy corridor
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Through an arch
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Through an arch
 
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Columns
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Columns
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Room behind grand pillars
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Room behind grand pillars
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Junction of arched corridors upstairs
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Junction of arched corridors upstairs
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Decaying room
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Decaying room
 
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Wheelchair in a room
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Wheelchair in a room
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Electroshock therapy equipment
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Electroshock therapy equipment
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Electroshock therapy
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Electroshock therapy
 
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Old bed frames
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Old bed frames
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Dentist chair in a corridor
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Dentist chair in a corridor
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy - Room containing a wheelchair and beds
Manicomio di Colorno, Italy – Room containing a wheelchair and beds
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