Lazzaretto of Ancona

The building was commissioned by Pope Clement XII, designed by the architect Luigi Vanvitelli, and built from 1733 to 1743.

A well was located in the central Neoclassical tempietto dedicated to Saint Roch, invoked against the plague, in the center of the courtyard.

It was built to house possibly-infected travellers and goods arriving in the port,[2] who had to remain there forty days.

[1] During World War I, there was a failed attempt to sabotage the Italian naval resources by 60 infiltrating Habsburg sailors.

The efforts of this work can be compared to the contemporary architecture of institutions meant to provide geometrically compelling structures to house services for the poor in Naples by Fernando Fuga, such as the massive Royal Hospice and Hospital for the Poor and the mathematical Cemetery of the 366 Fossae.