Today, the architectural complex of San Servolo with its beautiful park is a conference centre, which has been recently completely restored with a conservative approach. It was a monastic seat for a thousand years with first settlement dating back to the 7^th century. Successively, it was employed as a military hospital and, more recently, to host persons with mental illness until its closure in 1978. The San Servolo Insane Asylum Museum, inaugurated in 2006, provides a testimony of the history of the complex. It displays items belonging to the psychiatric hospital along with jars and instruments of the old apothecary. A church has been present in the San Servolo complex since the 9^th century. It was rebuilded by the Fatebenefratelli monks and it was completed in 1762. Successively it acquired the present aspect with the characteristic two bell towers after another renovation in the early 1800s. The park of the San Servolo complex with a number of very old trees is one of the largest in Venice.