Everything about Lazaretto totally explained
A
lazaretto or
lazaret is a
quarantine station for maritime travellers. Lazarets can be ships permanently at anchor, isolated islands, or mainland buildings. Until 1908, lazarets were also used for disinfecting postal items, usually by
fumigation. A leper colony administered by a
Christian religious order was often called a
lazar house, after the parable of
Lazarus the Beggar.
Lazarettos throughout history
The first lazaret was established by
Venice in 1403 on Santa Maria di Nazareth (also called "Nazaretum" or "Lazaretum", today "
Lazzaretto Vecchio"), an island in the
Venetian Lagoon
. Additionally there's
Lazzaretto Nuovo, also in the lagoon.
Pope Clement XII erected a
Lazaretto at the south end of the
Ancona harbor.
Fidra an uninhabited island in the
Firth of Forth, off eastern
Scotland has the ruins of an old chapel, or lazaretto for the sick, which was dedicated to on it
St. Nicholas.
In the early 16th century, when Corfu was under Venetian rule, a monastery was established on the islet. Later that century, the island was renamed Lazaretto, after the leprosarium that was set up there.
In 1798, when the French ruled Corfu, the Russo-Turkish fleet took over the islet and ran it as a military hospital. In 1814, during the British occupation, the leprosarium was renovated and went into operation again. After the Ionian Islands were united with Greece (1864), the leprosarium only operated when needed.
Lazaretto Islet survives on
Ithaca and another on
Zakynthos. As of
2002, one of the few remaining lazarets in Europe is the one in
Dubrovnik.
In the United States, the
Philadelphia Lazaretto was the first edifice of its kind in the country.
Further Information
Get more info on 'Lazaretto'.
|
External Link Exchanges
Do you know how hard it is to get a link from a large encyclopaedia? Well we're different and will prove it. To get a link from us just add the following HTML to your site on a relevant page:
<a href="http://lazaretto.totallyexplained.com">Lazaretto Totally Explained</a>
Then simply click through this link from your web page. Our crawlers will verify your link, extract the title of your web page and instantly add a link back to it. If you like you can remove the words Totally Explained and embed the link in article text.
As long as your link remains in place, we'll keep our link to you right here. Please play fair - our crawlers are watching. Your site must be closely related to this one's topic. Any kind of spamming, dubious practises or removing the link will result in your link from us being dropped and, potentially, your whole site being banned. |
