Charité University Hospital (Berlin)

Germany / Berlin / Berlin
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The Charité is the largest university hospitals in Europe. The Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin is the medical school for the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University of Berlin.

Initially built in 1710 in Berlin-Mitte in anticipation of an outbreak of bubonic plague, it came to be used as a charity hospital for the poor after the plague spared the city. In 1727 Frederick William I of Prussia gave it the name Charité, meaning "charity".

This is Charité Campus Mitte.
Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charité
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Coordinates:   52°31'33"N   13°22'39"E

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