Hôpital Caroline

This guide to the Hopital Caroline on Marseille's Frioul islands traces the quarantine complex built in 1828 to guard the harbor against yellow fever, and named for Marie-Caroline of Bourbon-Sicily, who had endured her own quarantine in the city years before construction began. You'll hear how its twelve pavilions and glassed-in chapel earned it the nickname the hospital of the wind, and which diseases actually filled its wards instead of the one it was built to stop. Best pictured from the open terrace between the pavilions, where that wind still moves through.