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Bookmark or Share- Inside Poveglia Island’s History Of Death And Madness - All That's ...Venice's Poveglia Island was a quarantine center and mass grave for victims of bubonic plague, earning it the nickname the "Island of Ghosts." In the Venetian lagoon sits Poveglia Island, a small, unpopulated landmass cut down the middle by a canal.
- Poveglia, the Plague-Island. Most haunted place in the worldPoveglia is an 18-acre triangle-shaped island in the Venetian lagoon 3 miles south of Venice. It was abandoned in the 14th century. It was then used as a military deposit, for docking, loading, and unloading ships, and later as a quarantine island.
- Poveglia: the mysterious ghost island that wants to be rebornPoveglia: a cursed island that nobody cares about. Poveglia is an island placed tin the south of Venice, situated in front of Malamocco, the southern district of the lido. Before assuming its current name, Poveglia is mentioned in the ancient maps as Poveggia or even Popilia, probably referring to the poplars that it housed or to the nearby Via ...
- Poveglia Island: All About Venice’s Haunted Island - Walks of ItalyPoveglia Island is an intriguing landmark in Venice, with a reputation for being haunted. Photo credit: Rick Turner. Let’s explore this island together and let you decide if its hauntings are real, or just legend.
- 15 Horrifying Things That Happened On Poveglia Island - RankerThe Italian island of Poveglia has a history chock-full of tragic events going back thousands of years. During the Roman Empire, the island was used to house victims of the plague in order to protect the rest of the country, forcing inflicted people to live and die in isolation.
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