For years, Poveglia Island has been described as a plague crematorium where 160,000 victims were burned alive and a sadistic ...
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 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.
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