Leprosy

Connected Sites: 8

WHS that included parts that were used as a leper hospital or leper colony.

Connected Sites

  • Venice and its Lagoon
    Inscribed: 1987
    4.52
    610
    19
    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"
  • Robben Island
    Robben Island
    South Africa
    Inscribed: 1999
    2.63
    120
    9
    1836-1931 served as a Leper colony
  • Burgundy
    Burgundy
    France
    Inscribed: 2015
    3.11
    200
    7
    Léproserie de Meursault
    See fr.wikipedia.org
  • City of Bath
    City of Bath
    United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 1987
    3.57
    409
    13
    The Leper Hospital in the City of Bath (Great Spas of Europe Nomination File, p. 66, 279)
  • Great Barrier Reef
    Inscribed: 1981
    4.20
    183
    8
    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"
  • Mijikenda Kaya Forests
    Inscribed: 2008
    2.23
    21
    4
    Kaya Kauma: "There is also a burial site for lepers deep within the forest." (nom file p31)
  • Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Great Spa Towns of Europe
    Austria, Belgium, Czechia, France, Germany, Italy, United Kingdom
    Inscribed: 2021
    3.28
    442
    16
    The Leper Hospital in the City of Bath (Nomination File, p. 66, 279)
  • Colonies of Benevolence
    Colonies of Benevolence
    Belgium, Netherlands
    Inscribed: 2021
    2.13
    147
    7
    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)