Hôpital de la Salpêtrière

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Salpetriere Hospital Pitié-Salpêtrière, or (French hôpital de la Salpêtrière, Pitié-Salpêtrière.) - French antique Hospital in Paris, in the 13th district of the city is now a university hospital kompleks.Obshirnoe space behind the Austerlitz train station occupies a complex of hospital buildings Salpetriere. This is one of the largest and best-known hospitals of Paris, has existed since the middle of XVII century. Hospital building with a high dome and grand façade is a monument of architecture and fits perfectly into the surrounding urban peyzazh.Sozdanie Salpetriere hospital associated with the name of the Sun King - Louis XIV. Long before the XVII century, these lands have been used for the needs of the Kingdom. Since the time of the late Middle Ages worked here a factory for the production of nitrate - one of the components for creating gunpowder. Nitrate is quite dangerous substance, and the walls of the factory more than once shook the explosions.