Creepy shelter dubbed ‘painful city’ where charred pacifiers and high chairs have been rotting since its forced closure

ROTTING beds, charred pacifiers and broken operating tables: the chilling ruins of an asylum dubbed the ‘Painful City’ have been rotting for more than two decades.

In a rural town in northern Italy lies Manicomio Di Voghera, a to leave psychiatric hospital that closed in 1998 after more than a century of horrors.

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Built in 1876, the sprawling complex housed patients who were rarely released back into society.

Today it is an overgrown house full of horrors and a terrifying reminder of its dark history.

Broken stretchers and wheelchairs line the corridors covered in crumbling plaster. Dirty sheets are on the beds that are still attached to the floor.

Each patient room – with the heavy metal doors eerily all left open – looks like prison cells.

The residents appear to have left in a hurry, as most of the hospital’s furniture and equipment remains.

Other rooms are filled with X-rays, broken high chairs, clotted blood-filled drops and piles of stained papers.

The asylum was once run by a notorious psychiatrist, Cesare Lombroso, who rejected all traditional treatments for the mentally ill.

Instead, the patients were reportedly used as his laboratory rats, suffering all kinds of horrors and abuse at his hands, some of whom died as a result of his experiments. Reports behind closed doors.

Upon arrival at Manicomio Di Voghera, the patients would be stripped of all their belongings and cruelly left in isolation for 28 days.

Until at least the 1950s, the only methods of so-called “care” at the site were electroshock and lobotomies.

Very few patients who have ever passed through the gate have gotten better. Stories of recovery were extremely rare.

Nature is slowly reclaiming the haunted place as weeds creep in through the broken windows, open doors and broken floors.

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