Home Sweet Home I

December 2011

After the asylum, go to a former sanatorium about to disappear.
Here we face a real monster of concrete : spreading its maze on six floors, it was built in the 50's.
Losing his sanatorium function, it will be unassigned for a short time before reopening as a rest home. Having to undergo a solid facelift, the owners have preferred to replace it with a new hideous complex, as out of the sick imagination of a three-year-old kid. The venerable sanatorium should succumb to the wrecking ball in a short time.

Abandoned since July 2010, time and unscrupulous visitors have already done quite a lot of damage. Broken windows with destroyed furniture, metal thieves have already made their purchases there.
Fortunately, during our excursion, we met other people : coming from the Netherlands, they were there too to visit this well-known place in the world of urban exploration.

Once inside, the similarity between the floors, the multiple corridors and stairs quickly made us lose all sense of orientation. Only incongruous details, like a piano or a pair of slippers allowed us to find our way around the building. A real pleasure !
On the other hand, walking around in what was probably the last bedroom of old people gave me a mixed feeling. Feeling stronger when we entered the morgue.
In a way, it was the visit of the dying hospice. Ironic, no ?

A new visit will be made in February 2013.