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Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Mount Mainalo, Arcadia region / Central Peloponnese

By Desolation Road

August 27^th, 2020

Crossing a rough dirt road that looks like a tunnel of fir trees in places, feeling sometimes that it leads you to nowhere, at 1,250 meters on the verdant Mount Mainalo and after leaving the road from Tripoli to Olympia at a point called "Red Fount" (Kokkinovrisi), you can reach an impressive abandoned stone-built Sanatorium.

The Sanatorium of Alonistena is one of the three ghost Sanatoriums of the 1920s in the region of Arcadia, at central Peloponnese, close to the majestic Sanatorium "Manna" and the large Sanatorium of Vytina. However, it was probably the most luxurious of all, as -according to some sources- it was also called "Old Hotel", because it also functioned as a hotel for affluent customers.

Like the one in Vytina, the Alonistena Sanatorium was a vision of the pulmonologists Bombolas and Geroulanos, and was funded in the 1920s by a merchant named Politis.

Particularly important to the patients suffering from tuberculosis in the Sanatorium of Alonistaina were the numerous springs around it, as the clean water, the clean air and the fresh bread of Alonistaina had a beneficial effect on their healing.

Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Alonistena ghost Sanatorium

Footnotes

Text & photography Copyright: Desolation Road / Adrian Jackson

FootNotes

Text & photography Copyright: Desolation Road / Adrian Jackson

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