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The first modern asylum in Spain

Leganés, Área Metropolitana, Madrid

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The first modern asylum in Spain

Historical milestone · Leganés, Área Metropolitana, Madrid

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The National Asylum of Santa Isabel opened in the old palace of the marquises of Leganés and received its first forty-four patients in April 1852. It was the first state psychiatric establishment in the country.

28 de diciembre de 1851

Photo: FDV (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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