old "Hospital General de Atocha"

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The Hospital General de Atocha" (called Hospital General y de la Pasión during the 17^th and 18^th centuries and Hospital Provincial de Madrid in the 19^th and 20^th centuries) was a health institution located in Madrid (near the Atocha Street) that was in service for nearly three hundred years. Its activity started in the early seventeenth century, as an experiment for the unification of health institutions in the Spanish provinces, and ended on October 1, 1965. Afterwards, its main buildings were renovated and transformed, since 1992, into a modern art Museum: the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía¹.