Venice's Poveglia island is now off-limits

uol.com.br (Portuguese)

Venice's "haunted" island, Poveglia, is now off-limits to tourists, with a local group securing a 99-year lease. A Venetian collective will transform Poveglia into a park for residents, following infrastructure upgrades. They outbid private developers to preserve the island's public status. Historically used as a quarantine station during plague outbreaks and later a mental asylum, Poveglia has a macabre past, fueling ghost stories and paranormal investigations.


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