Ruinas do Lazareto, Ilha Grande, Angra dos Reis, State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

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Known as Lazareto, this ruin was originally a farmhouse. In 1884, it was redesigned as a quarantine stopover for European immigrants to the New World, by order of the Emperor of Brazil. A cholera epidemic threatened Brazil because of the large number of European immigrants arriving infected, and the Lazareto was seen as a means of keeping at bay this dreaded disease and preventing its spread. Lazareto was closed down in 1940 to 1954 the Lazareto operated as a federal penal colony, being demolished in 1963.

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Location: Ruinas do Lazareto - Av. Nagib Mamed de Queiroz, Angra dos Reis - RJ, Brazil
Photo credit: © Andre M. Chang / Alamy / Afripics
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