Last night we drove to a nearby village and accross from it sits an island of about 4 city blocks by 7 city blocks called Spinalonga. It was oringially an old Venitian fortress built in the late 1400's and was later turned into a place of exile. Up until the 1950's it was used as a leper colony... the sick were went there to live out the rest of their lives and eventually die there... isolated. The buildings on the island were dull and lifeless... the island reiked of death and suffering... it still gives me a very unsettled feeling just thinking about it. It reminds me of Dachau (a concentration camp I once visited in Germany). It's eerie and sad to look at.
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