It was the oldest asylum in the Balkans. Now the doors are unlocked and patients are living new lives in the communityHigh walls still surround the oldest asylum in the Balkans,an 18th-century building pocked with the artillery scars of last century’s civil war, but the gates are no longer locked. Handles acquire been replaced on internal doors and bars removed from windows.“The jail, or ” said Darko Kovaoic,a 53-year-former poet with schizophrenia who lives here, “has broken open.”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk