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Url: http://www.forbidden-places.net/urban-exploration-Sabinosa-s-Sanatorium#gal
Photographer: Sylvain Margainem
Location: Spain
Photographer: Sylvain Margainem
Location: Spain
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| Sabinosa's sanatorium |
The Preventorio Marítimo La Sabinosa was built in 1929 following the plans of architect Francesc Monravà i Soler. It is located on a small peninsula between the large beaches of la Rabassada and la Sabinosa in Tarragona, Catalunya. Its architecture belongs to the 'multiple-unit' hospitals. Each ward block has only a few floors, with the four main wings winding around a central building.
The hospital is like a small town where one can find streets and avenues, little squares, fountains and pavilions. The symmetric layout is remarkable, while the surroundings are magnificent and protected. Built originally to house patients suffering tuberculosis, after the Spanish Civil war the sanatorium became used for much darker purposes.
For decades this is where generations of children left orphaned by the Francoist regime were imprisoned and mistreated in the most idyllic setting.
The hospital complex is nowadays totally derelict since its abandonment in 1976, shortly after the fall of the Spanish dictatorship.
