Sanatorium TBC

About this location

Standing on the shattered slate roof of the old sanatorium, we picked our way between exposed wooden rafters where tiles had long since slipped away, a loose one beneath our boots marked with white graffiti. From this vantage point, the weathered stone chimney, still capped with a rusted metal canopy, stood as the last sentinel of the structure. Beyond it, the green valley rolled out in a patchwork of trees and fields, dotted with the low buildings of the town below, all the way to the hazy ridge of distant mountains under a partly cloudy sky. It was a perfect, silent outlook over a landscape that had moved on without the hospital.

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