Amongst a beautiful tree-lined property in Italy sits a long forgotten abandoned insane asylum with a horrific history. The historic neoclassical designed hospital opened way back in 1876. The hospital’s famous semi-circled design gave the exterior brickwork a rotunda with a smooth curved look and feel on each opposing end of the building. From the outside, this hospital would seem so peaceful and tranquil, however, behind those marvelous curved exterior walls, were actually psychiatric isolation cell blocks on the interior. And what was happening inside those same isolations cells, is the same stuff that nightmares are made of.
This abandoned Italian insane asylum was known as a place of horror for its patients that resided there as they were subject to humiliation, depravity, and torture. The patients were both physically and sexually assaulted and robbed of all their respect and dignity. With no outside governance, the patients became lab rats for doctor’s experiments, suffering from all types of neglect and abuse. Many patients died as a direct result from the experiments, as well as from the hardships of asylum life, all leading up to its nickname of “The Painful City.”
After sitting abandoned for nearly 25 years, the one-time insane asylum is now in a state of decay, a mere shell of its former glory, standing forgotten and rotting away in a tiny rural Italian town.