Lazzaretto of Ancona

The Lazzaretto of Ancona, also called the Mole Vanvitelliana, is a pentagonal 18th-century building built on an artificial island as a quarantine station for the port town of Ancona, Italy.

In 1732, Pope Clement XII commissioned Luigi Vanvitelli to build the Lazzaretto. Vanvitelli designed it in the shape of a regular pentagon, which is the shape that characterizes the entire structure, from the surrounding walls to the buildings and the central square.

It is now a cultural centre and houses art exhibitions, a tactile museum (Museo Omero) and an auditorium.

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