A brand new hospital is gone.

Weird stuff and weird buildings.

Today I want to tell you a short story about the Sant'Antonio Abate hospital of Sermide, Mantova.

A building from the brutalist era.

It was designed by famous architect Carlo Bassi (1923-2017), built between 1968 and 1969 and opened in 1970.
I've heard that it was a very good hospital in its time: well managed, with excellent doctors and staff, and an oustanding Emergency Department as well.

However, the wards were closed a few years later, around the mid-1980s, as far I undestand, because a new and larger hopital was opened in a nearby town. Sant'Antonio Abate then remained open only as a blood collection center.

 Unfortunately, I have very little information about those years… I was born in '87!! The only things I remember about Sant'Antonio Abate hospital are that it was open for vaccinations and blood tests. In fact, I went there for routine blood tests throughout the 1990s until 2010, and for a tetanus shot in 2000 or 2001. I'm sure about the last time I entered this hospital was  the end of 2010, for a blood test. That day, I wanted to start exploring the entire complex, but I was scared: the corridors were dark and dirty.

Do you remember Alchemilla Hospital from the first Silent Hill ?!

Yeah - same atmosphere!!

Below, two pictures taken from Google Maps of the Sant'Antonio Abate in 2011; you can see lights on at the first floor.

I've always had a strong desire to explore that hospital; unfortunately, now it's too late...

The structure was closed in 2012 and completely abandoned.

In November 2025, it was demolished, causing enormous sadness in an entire town that lost an important piece of its history.

An heartbreaking sight, which I documented day by day with photos and a video.

In memory of the Sant'Antonio Abate Hospital of Sermide, Mantova.

- T H E  E N D -

~ Chris ~