Explore: Spinalonga (leper Colony)

and Longa. During the leper colony era (1904-1957), the island had the local nickname "the island of the living dead". Spinalonga is a rocky island situated

A leper colony, also known by many other names, is an isolated community for the quarantining and treatment of lepers, people suffering from leprosy.

and writer, known for his work on the study of the leper colony of Spinalonga in Greece. Spinalonga is a small barren island located in the Gulf of Elounda

small, now deserted island of Spinalonga. Alexis is shocked and surprised to learn the deserted island was Greece's leper colony for much of the 20th century

insurgents. In 1881 the 1112 Muslims formed their own community. When the island Spinalonga became a leper colony in 1903, the last Turks left the place. v t e

faces the small, now deserted island of Spinalonga, which she is surprised to learn was Greece's leper colony for much of the 20th century. At Plaka,

point for lepers being transported to the leper colony at Spinalonga. In the 1930s the enclosed waters between Elounda and the Spinalonga peninsula (known

of the last man to leave the abandoned island of Spinalonga, which had been used as a leper colony. The man refused to leave, and so was forcibly removed

of the village of Elounda lies the island of Spinalonga, formerly a Venetian fortress and a leper colony. On the foot of Mount Dikti lies the Lasithi

(1801) – Ship of the line of the Royal Navy Lazareto (disambiguation) Leper colony – Place to isolate people with leprosy Order of Saint Lazarus – Roman