LAZARETTO

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.^[1] A leper colony administered by a Christian religious order was often called a 'lazar house', after the parable of Lazarus the Beggar.
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
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''Lazzaretto Vecchio, satellite view''
As of 2002, one of the few remaining lazarets in Europe is the one in Dubrovnik.^[4]

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See also

★ Leper colony

★ Order of Saint Lazarus

External links

★ Lazaretto outside of Philadelphia

★ The ''Lazzaretto Island'' in Venice, the first lazaretto in the World (in Italian)

References

1. History of Quarantine
2. AMERICAN EXPRESS AND PBZ AMERICAN EXPRESS ANNOUNCE U.S. ,000 GRANT FOR RESTORATION OF THE LAZARET IN DUBROVNIK
3. The Disinfection of Postal Items
4. Peel Island