Hospitals, prisons and institutions to film in Italy
8 of them, 1 with a photo and 2 with practical details the location publishes itself. Every entry links to the location or to the body that manages it.
Working and disused hospitals, clinics, prisons, barracks and asylums: corridors, wards and cells that are close to impossible to fake convincingly.
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Ex Carcere Le Nuove, Torino
Hospital, prison & institution
A former Turin prison built from 1857 for solitary confinement, used to hold political prisoners under fascism and the Nazi occupation, closed in the 1980s and now housing court offices, a museum and an air raid bunker.
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Carcere Borbonico di Santo Stefano
Hospital, prison & institution
A disused 1795 island prison off Ventotene built on a Panopticon plan, used to hold political prisoners into the 20th century and closed in 1965, now inside a state nature reserve.
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Carcere di Accadia
Hospital, prison & institution
A prison building completed in 1993 in the Apulian hill town of Accadia with capacity for 90 inmates, never used as a jail and now owned by the municipality as a storage depot.
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Carcere di Volturara Appula
Hospital, prison & institution
A former small-town prison building in the hill village of Volturara Appula, in the Daunian Mountains, listed in Italy's national locations database as a disused institutional building.
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Ex Carcere di Trento
Hospital, prison & institution
A late-19th-century Habsburg-era prison in Trento built from local red stone, with its original vestibule entrance and balustraded balcony intact, closed as a jail since 2010.
No water or mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles
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Ex Ospedale Carlo Forlanini, Roma
Hospital, prison & institution
A closed 1930s tuberculosis sanatorium in Rome, built as a self-contained horseshoe-shaped campus with wards, laboratories, a theatre and a cinema, vacated in 2015.
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Ex Ospedale Psichiatrico dell'Osservanza, Imola
Hospital, prison & institution
A 19th-century psychiatric hospital near Imola covering about 12 hectares of symmetrical two-storey pavilions and gardens, closed under Italy's 1978 Basaglia law and vacant since 1996.
Water and mains power on site, paved road access for large vehicles
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Ospedale Molinette, Torino
Hospital, prison & institution
A large active university hospital in Turin opened in 1935, built as a self-contained health campus of dozens of pavilions linked by covered walkways and underground tunnels.
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Other kinds of location in Italy
- Theatres, arenas and venues 14
- Industrial and derelict locations 30
- Offices, schools and public buildings 13
- Transport and infrastructure 19
- Film studios and backlots 12
- Bars, restaurants and shops 8
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