Leprosy
Connected Sites
| Site | Rationale | Link |
| Burgundy | Léproserie de Meursault | |
| City of Bath | The Leper Hospital in the City of Bath (Great Spas of Europe Nomination File, p. 66, 279) | |
| Colonies of Benevolence | In the second phase of the Veenhuizen Colony (1860-1918), "a small hospital for the cure of infectious diseases (lepers building) was built." (Nomination file, p. 148) | |
| Great Barrier Reef | Fantome Island. A leprosarium was established on the island in 1927. Upon its closure in 1974 it was purged by fire. The island is the site of 200 graves" | |
| Great Spa Towns of Europe | The Leper Hospital in the City of Bath (Nomination File, p. 66, 279) | |
| Robben Island | 1836-1931 served as a Leper colony | |
| Venice and its Lagoon | Island of San Lazzaro degli Armeni "Lying just off the Lido, San Lazzaro degli Armeni is a small, very green monastery island....(which) served as an asylum in the 12th Century and later became a hospital island for lepers, named after their patron saint Lazarus. The lepers were then transferred to the Ospedale di San Lazzaro dei Mendicanti at Santi Giovanni e Paolo" |
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