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09-Sep-2019

Anatomic Theater at the Ceppo Hospital

Pistoia, Italy

The first part of the subterranean tour takes you to the small Anatomic Theater with its oval amphitheater design. It was built between 1785 and 1787 to conduct anatomy lessons.
It’s one room with a marble table in the middle and stalls where the students would sit and listen to their lessons.
It’s an atmospheric place and you can easily imagine the corpse laid out on the table waiting to be dissected. It's very small and difficult to photograph.
My travel companion thought it was creepy. :-) It was kind of dark in there.
This is not underground. You visit this before going to the underground tunnels.


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George McCarten29-Oct-2019 00:18
an interesting find. It would probably be a shocking experience to most of us to venture back in time a few centuries.
Nirvan Hope24-Oct-2019 03:52
It does feel a bit creepy, despite the ornate decorations.
globalgadabout24-Oct-2019 01:49
thank goodness for their visceral investigations....modern medicine owes a lot to its pioneers..
Jim Coffman24-Oct-2019 01:22
I think I agree with your companion!
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