A Venetian group won a bid to oversee part of Poveglia island, preventing private development. The group, Poveglia per tutti, will control the northmost island's green space under a six-year lease.
The abandoned Venetian island of Poveglia — site of a plague pit and former asylum — is about to take on a happier new identity. On August 1, a group of Venetians will take possession of the ...
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More than 4,000 Venice residents buy ‘haunted’ Italian island known for horrific experiments – to keep tourists away
A group of more than 4,500 residents of Venice chipped in to buy a “haunted” island that once housed an asylum and a hospital for quarantined plague victims — to keep tourists away. The local ...
A citizens’ group is now in charge of the island of Poveglia, where they will create a park for anyone who wants to leave Venice’s maddening crowds of tourists behind. Members of the Poveglia for ...
Ruined kitchen equipment is spread at the now abandoned Hospital of Poveglia(Image: Getty Images) Just beyond the busy canals of Venice lies one of the most terrifying islands on Earth, with a dark ...
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