Urban Exploration in an abandoned old hospital!!

Hello friends of the world of xpilar community, welcome to another post of mine. This time I will take you with me, to the urban exploration I did yesterday in an old abandoned hospital. Urban exploration is one of my favorite hobbies but unfortunately, I very rarely find an old building accesible, to be able to explore and capture pictures of the interior. Thankfully this time I got lucky and the old hospital which I saw on Instagram, was reachable from a variety of entrances.

The name of the old hospital is NIEN or Merchant Marine Nursing Institution. It operated between 1948 and 1975 and it is located at Melissia in Athens in a 116-acre pine forest. In 1975, the hospital closed to make some necessary repairs and never opened again. In 1981, repairs were abandoned and since then the building simply exists without serving any specific purpose. Now its main guests are young graffiti artists, groups of teenagers with beers in hand, Urban explorers, and people who walk their dog.

The interior of the hospital was a mixture of ruins that sometimes looked alike to each other. There were some rooms that more or less you could understand what their previous use was. Some were toilets, others patient rooms, others doctors' offices, others as a secretariat and some other completely incomprehensibly structured spaces. Perhaps the most striking piece of all was a small church in a corner of the ground floor. When man abandons something, God necessarily abandons it as well.

In any case, 40 years since its abandonment, the operation of this almost 12,000 sq.m. building has changed. Graffiti can be seen on almost every wall, even on the 4th and 5th floors of the hospital. Some of them are very impressive some just messy signatures of those who want to contribute to the lack of meaning of the building.

On the floor, there is dust, debris, and some plants that you have no idea where they came from or how the heck they sprouted in the cement.

The old hospital had all the elements that give a metaphysical feel. It is a huge deserted place that was once full of life but now you know when you pass any of its entrances, that you are alone in a space of thousands of square meters. Even if it does not have any elementary story to accompany its existence. Hospital stories are usually scary but not haunting. Stories of scared people, who hoped, who were anxious, who were relieved. All this, after all, makes you feel like a hospital.

Entering the interior of the hospital, Even if you do not believe in any of these types of metaphysical -let's say- suspicions, you suggest yourself do it. You feel like you are touring a city of the dead. The fact that we are talking about a hospital, a place that is in any way connected to the battle of life and death has its significance. Every time I passed between the corridors it was like I was walking in the same space before it was abandoned.