Inside Tenerife’s eerie ghost town of Sanatorio de Abona, built to quarantine leprosy victims

Inside Tenerife’s eerie ghost town, built to isolate the sick to prevent the spread of leprosy – but never used after a cure was found Sanatorio de Abona, on the southeast coast, was designed in 1943 as a town where the sick could quarantine Following the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, there were around … Read more

Inside Tenerife’s eerie ghost town of Sanatorio de Abona, built to quarantine leprosy victims

Inside Tenerife’s eerie ghost town, built to isolate the sick to prevent the spread of leprosy – but never used after a cure was found Sanatorio de Abona, on the southeast coast, was designed in 1943 as a town where the sick could quarantine Following the Spanish Civil War in the 1930s, there were around … Read more