The origins of Cles Hospital date back to the Medieval age when the Confraternity of the Battuti erected a health facility known as “Domus Dei” in the neighbourhood of Pez, with adjacent church of Santa Maria Nuova, now defunct.
At the end of the 1500s the hospital was extended and converted, remaining under the management of the Confraternity of San Rocco until 1810.
In 1825 the Congregazione di Carità was formally appointed to administer the hospital and provide public assistance then in 1855, on the occasion of a cholera epidemic, the hospital was transferred to the parish rectory. A few years later in 1867 the hospital was moved to a disused spinning-mill in the current day Via Diaz, subsequently known as the Ospitale del ponte degli amori (Lover's Bridge Hospital).
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