Lazzaretto

The Lazaretto di Caderzone is located a short distance from the Pinzolo pine forest, in the locality of Santa Maria, and is today used as an agricultural warehouse and barn, yet still preserving, both outside and inside, grim indications of its ancient use.

Between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, also in Val Rendena, in order to preserve the healthy in the village, the painful but necessary measure was chosen to remove the plague sufferers and concentrate them in supervised places, where they could be controlled and perhaps healed: the Lazarettes. Built in the sixteenth century as a country house of the Lodron nobles, at the fall of the latter it was absorbed among the properties of the new "Lords" of Caderzone, the Bertelli, who during the epidemic of 1630 modified its structure making it more spacious, and providing it with an external boundary wall (the building had to be guarded to avoid escape attempts), a chapel, a large bread oven and a cemetery not far away.

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The fresco "Madonna and Child with Saints Julian and Antonio Abate" outside the Lazzareto is the work of Giuseppe Chinatti.

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