St Lazarus
St Lazarus quarter
St. Lazarus and Volong quarters were the first modern urbanization that expand the city out side the walls.
They were build over the land reclamation, that cover the former secluded area of the leprosarium and the Volong orchard (previously a bamboo field).
The plague of 1895 killed many of the dwellers of this polluted fields.
Engineer Abreu Nunes was the designer of this new city quarters, that make the plan according with the sanitation principles and “believes” of his time in order to curve the spreading of these harassing pestilence.
Because of this reasons many of the previous buildings in this district were destroy by fire and cover with land in order to curve the epidemic of cholera and as a measure to avoid the return of other plagues.
The center of this quarter is St. Lazarus Church, which neoclassic version was build in 1885, by order of the governor Tomás Rosa.
Many of the old famous group of buildings in St. Lazarus quarters are just waiting to fall. Zero maintenance is the first signal of the short future classified heritage building.