Sanatorio Popolare Cantonale di Piotta
The Sanatorio Popolare Cantonale di Piotta is a former sanatorium for tuberculosis sufferers in the Swiss canton of Ticino .
The hospital, which has been abandoned since 1962, is located above Piotta ( Quinto municipality ) in the Leventina . It was initiated by the later Italian Senator Fabrizio Maffi, who fled to Switzerland , opened in 1905 and was also a military hospital for some time after the First World War . The sanatorio had its own stop on the Ritom funicular .
The property at an altitude of 1160 m above sea level. M. consists of a four-story main building with 76 hospital rooms, a medical center that is still inhabited, and the former wash house.
In autumn 2016, the canton sold the sanatorio to a private company of Kazakh investors who wanted to build a training center for winter sports.
Web links
- Entry on the Red List , Swiss Homeland Security
- Omar Gisler: Green light for the ice sports academy. Urner Wochenblatt , July 23, 2016, p. 15, accessed on November 29, 2016.
- Manfred Rösch: From the magic mountain to the haunted castle. Finanz und Wirtschaft , September 6, 2014, accessed November 27, 2016.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ruggero Crivelli: Altanca: HEURs et d'un malheurs sanatorium. In: Le Globe. Revue genevoise de geographie. 2005 (145), 1, pp. 109-119.
- ↑ Acquistato l'ex sanatorio di Piotta. Corriere del Ticino , November 15, 2016, accessed November 27, 2016.
Coordinates: 46 ° 31 ′ 12 " N , 8 ° 40 ′ 20" E ; CH1903: six hundred and ninety-four thousand six hundred and fifty-eight / 152821