Be prepared to enter a whole new different world stained with torturous and deadly treatments inflicted on the most unfortunate patients who occupied these wards for centuries. Learn of the torments of 19th and 20th century psychiatric treatments and the agonizing lives of the hospital’s inmates. And at last a guide will lead you on a path to the cemetery where in seemingly calm fellowship many souls lay at rest; history tells of a different story.
This will also include a reflexion on treatments influenced by the financial interests of the pharmaceutical industry which at times only further enhanced the harm done to patients and their loved ones. This breathtaking walk through the institution’s grounds will allow every enthusiast to be closer to the tragic past of many of Bohemia’s stigmatised patients.
This promenade will also lead you to the Asylum’s famous abandonned graveyard where patients, criminals and many other lost souls were once laid to rest. As you walk along its wall, various burial rites will be explored as well as stories of criminals and patients buried next to the Asylum; before ending the tour with an incredible view of the Drahan Valley with its breathtaking sceneries – a rewarding end to an emotionally packed historical tour.