Poveglia is an ominous plague island where they want to invite tourists. The plague island of Venice - a place of true evil (6 photos) Island for the mentally ill

The summer vacation season is coming soon, and you haven't decided where to go yet? beach holiday seems boring to you, but the photo on the background eiffel tower no one to impress? Then our list will help you tourist spots, which cannot be called standard at all: mysterious castles, unusual buildings, frightening legends. One of the places is nearby - in Karelia! Even if you do not encounter ghosts, interesting experiences are still provided.
1. Island of Dead Dolls in Mexico

The Island of the Dead Dolls is located 18 kilometers from Mexico City. According to one legend, the ghost of a drowned girl lives there, according to another, innocent children were forcibly drowned there. In the 1950s, worker Julian Barrera suddenly abandoned his family and became a recluse, moving to this island. The man found a doll on the island near the alleged place of death of the girl. After that, he began his strange collection to propitiate the spirit of the lost child. For 50 years, until his death, he collected a variety of dolls and hung them on trees. Now it is a popular tourist spot.

2. Hill of Crosses, Lithuania

The mountain with a speaking name is located near the Lithuanian city of Siauliai and looks like an old cemetery. But in fact it is a place of pilgrimage for Catholics. According to the existing belief, if you leave the cross here, then any of your desires will come true and good luck will accompany in all matters. The very first cross was erected by a man whose daughter was terminally ill. Soon after the installation of the crucifix, his daughter recovered, and fame was attached to the place. Despite the fact that the legend is quite bright, the place looks creepy.

3. Ossuary in Sedlec, Czech Republic

The Church of All Saints is located in the small Czech town of Kutna Hora. The church is located in a cemetery, and is known for the fact that the interior of the church is decorated with human bones. During the plague, the cemetery could not accommodate all the dead, so a special tomb was built, where the remains were stored for a long time. In the 19th century, the family that owned the chapel hired a stone carverFrantisek Rint, who decided to make a non-standard interior in the church. He bleached the bones and used them for interior decoration. Now the place is wildly popular with tourists. By the way, at the checkout you can buy a copy of the skull as a souvenir.

4. Darvaza crater, or "Gates of Hell", Turkmenistan

The crater with the telling name “Gates of Hell” was formed 46 years ago due to an error during exploration. Due to the failure of the soil, a hole appeared, from which poisonous gas began to be released. So that people from the nearest settlements would not suffer, they decided to set fire to the gas. And now, instead of the prescribed two days, the gas has been burning for 46 years and attracts travelers from all over the world. Indeed, photographs against the background of this crater look very impressive.

5. Ghost town Centralia, USA

The well-known cinematic city of Silent Hill, it turns out, has a real prototype, in which some of the scenes of the popular film were even filmed. In 1962, an incident occurred due to which the town became uninhabitable. It all started quite banal - firefighters burned garbage in an abandoned coal mine pit. Carelessness led to the ignition of coal. A real underground fire began, which continues to this day. It has become impossible to live in the city, but the danger does not stop lovers of extreme tourism.

6. Forest Hoya-Bachu, Romania

Forest with unusual name in the Romanian city of Cluj-Napoca has a reputation for being mysterious and mystical place because of various strange events that occur there with enviable regularity. Prolonged exposure to this forest can cause nausea, dizziness, and even a rash. There are even photographs from Hoya-Bachu, which recorded a UFO. The mystical atmosphere of the forest is enhanced by various strange stories“People go missing without a trace.”

7. Poveglia Island, Italy

Touristic Venice has another side. Poveglia is one of the islands in the Venetian lagoon, where plague patients were sent to die. There are many legends about ghosts that roam the abandoned buildings of the island. In the 20th century, a hospital for the mentally ill was opened there, which was notorious. Terrible rumors about experiments circulated, and the head physician even committed suicide by jumping off high tower. Since then, the island has become abandoned, until tourists and photographers became interested in it.

8. Spotted Lake, Canada

An unusual lake is located near the town of Osoyus. The Indians of the local tribe call it Kliluk and attribute to it a variety of magical properties. But its appearance is explained quite tritely - this is due to the high concentration of magnesium sulfate, silver, calcium and titanium. Looks very unusual!

9 Kanbashi Ghost Town, China

Another famous ghost town is Chinese Kanbashi. It cannot be said that it is completely deserted. By Karelian standards, a lot of people live in it - about 20 thousand people. The whole problem lies in the fact that it was designed for 2 million people, so the illusion of an absolutely empty city is created. Tourists can be found here more often than locals!

10. Sacred Forest, Italy

The Sacred Forest Park was informally called the "Monster Garden" because of its interesting sculptures. It was built in the 16th century in the small town of Bomarzo. There are 30 ancient sculptures in this forest: Aphrodite, Hercules, the dog Cerberus, sirens and other mythological characters. The park was not cared for for several centuries, which gave it a special flavor.

11. Desert Hand, Chile

An unusual sculpture is located in northern Chile. An impressive 11-meter monument, as conceived by the author, symbolizes loneliness, injustice and helplessness. The place looks sad and abandoned. Nevertheless, it is often visited by tourists and photographers. And rock bands have completely chosen the place as a platform for filming their music videos.

12. Aokigahara Forest, Japan

The name of the forest is translated very poetically - a plain of blue trees. But locals they know this forest under a completely different name - the forest of suicides. This is not only a popular route for tourists, but also a favorite place for suicides from Tokyo. The authorities are doing everything possible to prevent the loss of life, so the forest is regularly patrolled. In addition, there are cameras in the forest, warning signs where you can find helplines. But still, the atmosphere is creepy.

13. Vottovaara, Karelia

The rocky massif, 226 kilometers from Petrozavodsk, is known as the most mystical place in Karelia. There are many interesting objects on the rocky plateau: a perfectly carved well in the rock, a triangular stone, seids. The origin of these objects is unclear, the theory of the man-made nature of the seids has not yet been confirmed. But, nevertheless, Vottovaara remains one of the most popular places for mystic tourists from all over Russia. Everything is in the right mood here: twisted burnt trees, thick fogs and junk equipment (very often phones and cameras stop working here).

Location: Poveglia Island, 3 km south of Venice.
Area: 7.25 acres
Buildings: 11 buildings
Closed (technically): due to the poor condition of the buildings

History of Poveglia

The island of Poveglia was originally called Popiglia, from the Latin word populus, or poplar. A dense forest of these trees once covered the entire island. Another theory says that Poveglia got its name in honor of the ancient Roman consul Publius Popilio Lenat (2nd century BC). He became famous for the construction of a major ancient Roman road, known today as Via Popilia (Via Popilia).

The island of Poveglia was originally inhabited by fishermen, but in the 5th century AD. its population has grown significantly thanks to refugees from the Italian mainland. The barbarian armies advanced deep into the Apennine Peninsula, capturing and plundering everything in their path. Only a lucky few survived, hiding away from the main Roman roads. Refugees settled on numerous islands in the Venetian lagoon, including Poveglia, the islands of Venice and many others.

New wave Settlers came in the 8th century from Padua and Esta, cities that were destroyed by the Lombard tribes. In 863, the 13th Doge of Venice, Pietro Tradonico, was forced to hide for a short time on the island of Poveglia, after civil unrest in the city. He was joined by 200 families of his faithful servants. AT Eventually, the former ruler was killed in the same year, but many of his former supporters remained here.

The settlement grew steadily under Venetian rule until the Genoese fleet began attacking the scattered settlements during the War of Chioggia (1379-1381). The Venetians moved the inhabitants of the island of Poveglia closer to the island of Giudecca within the city of Venice to protect themselves from the enemy. Octagon, a small artificial island located in the southern part of the island, was erected around the same time to strengthen the Venetian line of defense. It served as a stronghold for artillery batteries against incursions from the sea.

The island of Poveglia remained empty until the 15th century. Then there were only a few warehouses. In addition, sailors temporarily lived here in quarantine until they were allowed to get to Venice.

In 1777, the island of Poveglia was transferred to the medical institution "Magistrato alla sanita" (Health Administration). A hospital (Lazzaretto) was built here to house people in quarantine so that they could not bring the plague to the city.

In 1805, the French Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte ordered the destruction of the Church of San Vitale as part of his campaign against the clerics and the Catholic Church in general. Its existence is only reminded by the former bell tower, which was turned into a lighthouse. The island of Poveglia served as an armory for the French troops, and therefore the Austrians repeatedly tried to take the island of Poveglia with a succession of surprise attacks, which were never successful.

The hospital was closed in 1814, but in 1922 the abandoned buildings were converted into a hospital. They were rebuilt or reconstructed to accommodate the mentally ill, who were supposed to be isolated from the rest of society.

Many of the people who got here could not be considered fit for hospitalization by modern psychiatric standards. So they sent people with depression, homosexuals, bipolar disorder and so on. Unfortunately, the isolation and secrecy of the hospital has allowed doctors to perform numerous gruesome medical procedures on their patients. Patients were beaten, lobotomized, deprived of food and water. Often people could not stand it and died from such content. All those who were killed or died on the hospital grounds were buried in mass graves.

In 1968, the hospital was completely abandoned and abandoned. The northern part of the island of Poveglia was used for agricultural purposes and growing vineyards, but then they were abandoned.

Ghosts on the island of Poveglia

Today, Poveglia is abandoned, but many locals are sure that the island is not completely empty. Locals claim that more than 160,000 people were buried here from the plague alone. Moreover, many people died on the island due to long journeys and bloody battles.

One legend claims that the head physician of a psychiatric hospital in the early 20th century tortured his patients by performing inhuman experiments on them. He was particularly interested in patients who claimed to have seen plague victims from the Medieval period. Many victims of the head physician died during his procedures and were buried on the territory of the island of Poveglia. Eventually, the doctor himself went mad and began to see ghosts and hear voices himself. He committed suicide by jumping from the former belfry of the destroyed church. Some eyewitnesses said that he died immediately upon falling. Others, in particular one nurse who saw the fall, claimed that he was still alive after hitting the ground. He was finished by some mysterious fog that surrounded and suffocated him.

Another place in Poveglia known for its ghosts is the "Plague Field", so named because of the mass graves of the victims of the plague from three waves of the epidemic. For the first time this terrible disease appeared in 1348 and claimed the lives of many cities in Europe. Another wave of the epidemic took place in 1570, and the last occurred in 1630. As a result of the last wave of the plague, more than 55,000 inhabitants of Venice died.

During all the epidemics, the citizens of Venice tried to save themselves by sending sick and dying people to the island of Poveglia. People were sometimes snatched from their homes at the slightest suspicion of bubonic plague. They were loaded onto ships and transported to the island, where they were to spend 40 days in quarantine. Of course most of the unfortunate victims never returned. Even if they were healthy before arriving on the island, after 40 days they were already infected and often died.

Many of the victims were burned in the northern part of the island, and their remains were scattered over the "Plague Field". Many local fishermen avoid the island because they think the layer of ash from human remains could still carry the plague. Of course this is a myth. It’s just that the shores of the island are washed away and the bones of the victims often fall into the nets, and the Italians are still quite religious people and treat the dead with respect.

Archaeological excavations were carried out on the field. In addition to the ashes from the corpses, mass graves of whole skeletons were found here. There is a suspicion that some people were simply thrown into the pits while still alive. This is evidenced by some positions of bodies and hands. Apparently, some of the victims tried to get out of the graves, but the mass of bodies above them did not allow them to do so.

Locals also claim that at night you can hear the groans, screams and coughs of restless souls who still roam the island. Others reported the smell of sulfur and burning wood, although the police called did not find people on the island.

Some visitors claim that not all local ghosts are friendly to uninvited guests. Several people have claimed to have been touched, pushed, and even beaten by unseen creatures. At the end of the 20th century, a certain family bought the island and tried to settle here. They spent only one night here. Toward morning they hurriedly left Poveglia. Their daughter was found bloody and beaten. She later received 14 stitches in the hospital. Who attacked her and why neither the girl nor her parents could explain. They only babbled something about whispering spirits and weeping women.

One of the most famous sights in Poveglia is of course its bell tower. It was here that the sadistic doctor died. There was even the ladder on which he tried to climb up. However, you should not climb it. Whether there are spirits or not, you decide. But the fact that the handrails are very shaky and rusted for a long time leaves no doubt. They break at the slightest pressure on them.

Mass graves of plague victims on the island of Poveglia

These are mass graves of victims of several waves of plague on the island of Poveglia. This is only a small part of all the bodies that were buried here. Many were burned, and their ashes were thrown into similar mass graves on the island of Poveglia.

Tourists do not always seek only to relax: soak up the sun or have a good time. There are adventurers who don't feed bread - let them experience the thrill. They prefer the peaceful Seychelles and colorful Caribbean islands, fraught with danger and known for the tragedies that occurred there.

In the first place in the list of terrible islands is Ilha de Queimada Grande - Snake Island. It is located off the coast of Brazil. And it seems that this land is good for everyone, but only on the island is teeming with dangerous snakes, such as poisonous spear-headed snakes. From the bite of this creature, irreversible tissue necrosis begins. The Brazilian government took care of its citizens and visitors and forbade visiting the island.

Tourists are in no hurry to overcome the bans and walk around the island. There are so many snakes there that there is a very high probability that one of them will step on the head and die from the poison.

Second on the list is the island of Poveglia. It is located in the lagoon of Venice. The history of the island has been winding since the time of the Roman Empire. Then the plague patients began to be exiled to the island. Several thousand patients died there. Since then, Poveglia has been a mass grave. Centuries passed - and Europe fell ill with bubonic plague. Everything that seemed sick was brought to the island. The Romans, who left people to die slowly, turned out to be much more merciful than the inhabitants of the Middle Ages. Bubonic plague patients were thrown into pits along with the corpses and burned. Until now, charred bones stumble across the island. It is estimated that the island became a grave for 160 thousand people.

But that's not all. In 1922, a psychiatric hospital was built on Poveglia. There, as in the best horror films, they experimented on sick and not quite people. In addition, the ghosts of those who died from the plague disturbed the hospital at night with cries and groans.

Until now, no one lives on Poveglia. In the middle of the 20th century, the Italians tried to settle on the island, but the oppressive atmosphere of this place did not allow this.

The next island is Ramri. It is located off the coast of Burma. On Ramri in 1945, many Japanese infantrymen died. Allied forces on the small island were able to push back the Japanese. They, escaping, rushed into the depths of Ramri. Most did not escape from the local swamps. The crocodiles attacked from all sides and tore the soldiers to pieces. This terrible death was so impressive that it entered the Guinness Book of Records.

Next - Japanese islands Izu. This small chain of islands is no place for a man, although the few locals don't think so. There is high volcanic activity in this area, and the air there is saturated with sulfur. The concentration of this substance on the islands is the highest in the world. Those who enter the islands must dress up in special masks and wear them without removing them all the time. Sometimes a siren starts to blare over the islands, which means that the concentration of sulfur in the air has reached a deadly level.

Scientists pay the natives a small amount of money, and people participate in a kind of experiment, the purpose of which is to find out what becomes of a person after a long time spent in a protective mask.

The next point is a miraculous island, but appeared only "thanks" to man - a large Pacific garbage patch. This is a huge mountain of debris that has ever fallen into the waters. Pacific Ocean. The spot appeared where the currents have long carried the waste of mankind floating in the ocean. This ocean dump is the size of the state of Texas.

The horror of the existence of the spot lies, in addition to the disgust of realizing the existence of such an object in the ocean, in the fact that the plastic eventually breaks down into particles the size of plankton. Stupid fish eat the remnants of plastic and with it in their bellies end up on our table.

The island of garbage, of course, is not suitable for walking due to fragility.

The last one on our list is famous island Fiji. Not many tourists who aspire to go there know that at one time in Fiji they devoured people with might and main, killed babies and tortured in the most terrible ways. In the first half of the 19th century, a missionary came to the island, who later described what he saw there as follows: “October 31, 1839, Thursday. This morning we watched a shocking performance. 20 dead bodies of men, women and children were brought to Rewa as a gift from Tanoa. They were supposed to be cooked and eaten... The children had fun making fun of the corpse of a little girl. A crowd of men and women butchered the corpses of a grey-haired old man and a young woman. Human remains floated down the river."

No matter how much you love to travel, there are places on Earth where you are not destined to go: only the elite are allowed to enter here. And we are not talking about private territories, but about public places.

1. It is unlikely that you will ever be able to get inside the Lascaux caves located in the south-west of France: explore the unique cave drawings, whose age, according to scientists, is more than seventeen thousand years, only guards can. In 1963, the caves were closed - a destructive fungus started up in them, and the presence of people in the caves is considered as a destructive factor. Only guards are allowed to enter here, and even then only for a few minutes once a week.

2. Another place where you will not be allowed to enter will be the island of Poveglia, located in northern Italy. In past eras, this island was a place of exile for the sick and a pile of corpses of the dead. In the middle of the fourteenth century, when the bubonic plague mowed down the inhabitants of Venice, and indeed all of Europe, the island became a place where the sick were exiled. Dead and alive, they were surrounded by firewood and burned - to avoid the uncontrolled spread of the disease. History repeated itself in 1630 when the plague swept across Europe again.

Already in the 20th century, a hospital for insane people was built here, and people said that the souls of the patients of the psychiatric hospital who were burned alive and tortured people still roam the island. As a result, the island was closed - neither a tourist nor a local resident will get here.

But you should not despair: - this is a country in which there are so many interesting things that life is not enough to get acquainted with its sights. What are Venice and Florence worth, or the country's capital, Rome?

3. However, there is one more place in Italy where they won't let you in. This is - secret archives Vatican. They contain both government papers and other unique documents of past centuries. You can read the documents, despite the stamp "Secret" - for this you need to submit an application. But outsiders are not allowed to enter the archive.

4. The entrance for tourists is also closed to the temple of Our Lady Mary of Zion, located in Ethiopia. It is said that this temple houses a unique biblical object - the ark of the Old Testament. The object is considered holy, and then so holy that only a specially selected monk can approach it.

5. If you are not a Chinese citizen, then you will not be allowed into the local Jiangsu National Security Museum - it reveals to visitors the history of Chinese espionage. Documents and various devices cover the period from 1927. The collection includes tiny pistols disguised as lipstick and other interesting spy arsenal.

However, only the Chinese can enter here - the country's authorities do not intend to divulge the secrets of espionage to foreigners. But here it is forbidden to take pictures here.

Gloomy skies and cloudy weather. The boat is moving fast mediterranean sea under the drizzle. We stand at the prow, wrapping ourselves in cloaks and peering into the gray haze in search of a place of interest to us. Ten minutes later, the outlines of the island appear in the distance. Immediately striking is the high bell tower with a spire. As we get closer, we see the silhouettes of the buildings of an abandoned psychiatric clinic through a light veil of creeping fog. Rare seagulls fly over the island, people are not visible, ringing silence hangs in the air. This is probably one of the most atmospheric trips, albeit not crowned with much success.
Poveglia, an island near Venice, was used as an infirmary or "plague pit" at the height of an epidemic in Italy. Several tens of thousands of people died here. Later in the 20th century, a psychiatric hospital was founded here, the chief physician of which was fond of the most sophisticated methods of treatment. According to legend, he himself went mad and committed suicide by jumping off the bell tower. Soon after, the hospital was abandoned and the island closed to the public.

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Actually, the idea of ​​getting here was a big gamble from start to finish. Previously, I have never encountered the problem of getting not into a building on land (where at the very least you can climb over, climb through and get to the goal), but on an island, moreover, the island is not somewhere in Russia, but in the Mediterranean Sea in Italy. And not just an island, but a closed island, and according to information from the Internet, it is also patrolled by marine police boats. Yes, and with such a dark history. But the place itself was described as so atmospheric that it was unacceptable not to go at such a small distance from Venice. Therefore, after much persuasion, I persuaded the girl to quickly visit this island, and now, six months later, in March, we find ourselves in Venice. The next day, after walking around the city, we get on a vaporetto and hit the road. Of course, the vaporetto does not go to this island, but only to the neighboring one. I will omit the details of walking around the island and persuading Italians in local yacht clubs and their stunned faces. Sooner or later, we managed to find a boat and hit the road. It is worth noting that I had never ridden boats before, plus I swim very badly, so jumping in a boat on the waves was extremely unusual. But I liked it) Seeing the island, I was terribly delighted, despite the vile weather and the general gloomy atmosphere. But our joy was short-lived, it turned out that the bottom of the boat was quite deep, and near the island near the piers it was rather shallow (for a boat). In short, we made a couple of circles around the island, it turned out that it was not possible to moor at the piers, to swim - the water temperature is 7 degrees and deep, and in other places - untested and dangerous. We had to be content with the fact that the captain swam to the maximum close quarters and slowly swam around the island several times. In this report, I will attach the history of the island (as I think it is all permeated with a thin thread of a mixture of legends and real events, but as they say, there is no smoke without fire) and photographs taken by me personally.

1. "The first and main purpose of the island is a quarantine station for marine travelers, one of three in the Venetian lagoon. Lazzaretto Vecchio, the first institution of its kind, opened in 1403, is located just a few hundred meters from Poveglia. The emergence of Lazzaretto (infirmaries) was due to urgent need.Plague and other diseases raging in medieval Europe, especially in large shopping malls, which was Venice, presented a huge problem. And although no one knew about germs and infectious diseases in those days, people knew that isolating infected travelers and sick people could either prevent or reduce the severity of the epidemic. According to the Venetian laws, before continuing their journey and disembarking in the city, they had to endure a forty-day quarantine in one of the Lazzaretto ... "

On the horizon, the outlines of the island are shown in a light veil of fog.

2. "... But this did not necessarily mean that a person would become infected and remain on Povely to wait for his death. Rather, on the contrary. Their stay was more like forced isolation: boring, although not always unpleasant. But during outbreaks of the black plague , one of which covered Europe in the 16th century, Poveglia really turned into hell. Everyone who had already managed to get infected, whether it was a commoner or a member of the nobility, was exiled to the island. healthy family members.These emergency measures have resulted in only a third of the death toll in Venice, while mainland Italy has lost two-thirds. in large numbers people were put into common grave pits and burned ... "

In the foreground we see an unusual octagonal defensive structure erected directly near the island - this is the so-called "crystal or octagon". It was built in the 14th century to repel Genoese attacks by the Venetians. I am attaching a map-satellite image of the island of the last century found on the Internet.

3. "... The most notable and one of the oldest structures on the island, apart from the ruins of a church from the 12th century, is the former bell tower with a spire. In the 18th century, the tower from the bell tower turned into a lighthouse, and now it is used only as a guide. .."

Rounding one of the sides of the octagon, we saw a narrow strait, above which, lost in dense thickets of trees and bushes, rises the main building of the former psychiatric hospital. But about her a little later.

4. "...According to local legends, Poveglia is densely populated by the spirits of tortured victims. During the entire existence of the island as a place of exile, it is estimated that about 160,000 people died on it. The island has many nicknames: "gates of hell", "refuge of pure fear", "refuge of lost souls". The Venetians are doing everything possible to refute the terrible rumors about Poveglia and cool down the interest in the island on the part of lovers of the mystical. They claim that they are not at all afraid of this place, and in discussions of its history they bypass the topics of a psychiatric hospital and plague epidemics. Not so long ago, an article in one of the popular Venetian magazines indicated that the hospital buildings that dominate the territory are nothing more than former houses recreation for the elderly. But as long as the island remains inaccessible to tourists, and its mysterious buildings are slowly being destroyed, rumors will spread with the speed of the wind..."

But time passes, the island remains abandoned. Buildings gradually fall into disrepair, nature and thickets capture buildings.

5. Now let me give you some very gloomy and incredible stories: "... Even before the 20th century, locals began to see strange things and hear strange sounds on the ghostly island. Despite the notoriety, in 1922, a psychiatric hospital was built on the island. Patients immediately reported seeing ghosts with signs of decay from the plague and hear strange whispers echoing from the walls, but no one believed them. strange doctor, who was interested in doing experiments on his living patients. His methods were crude, to say the least. Lobotomy was performed using a hand drill or hammer and chisel. Crazy patients were taken to a special building, where they were subjected to terrible torment. After several years of doing these horrible experiments, the doctor himself began to see ghosts. It is said that the ghosts rose from their graves, seized the doctor, and dragged him to the top of the bell tower. There they tortured him and forced him to throw himself off, and the doctor fell to his death... There are rumors that the mentally ill had walled up his body in the bell tower. There his spirit remained, wandering around the empty tower, to this day, and on quiet nights you can still hear the frightening sound of bells resounding over the bay ... "

A couple more local landscapes.

6. We continue to swim around the island. A pier and a cargo winch mechanism appear in front of us.

7. "... In one historical documentary book it is said that in recent years it was used as a shelter for the homeless. The house was abandoned in 1968, since then the island of Poveglia has been empty. Twenty years ago, in order to prevent complete destruction, the construction team hastily erected scaffolding, but left them like that ... "

A beautiful building against the backdrop of the ubiquitous bell tower.

I will give one old engraving found on the Internet, which shows this island.

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"Undoubtedly, plague-era burial pits are present on the island of Poveglia, although no one undertook to establish their location. Local historians believe that the part of the island reserved for growing crops was just used for such purposes, and the soil there is 50% of the ashes of the burned corpses"

10. The second island, to which the bridge leads, was previously used for growing crops and for walking patients of the hospital. However, now it is heavily overgrown. Therefore, further we go towards the island of Lido. Turn around and take another shot.

11. At Lido Island, we turn around and head towards the northeast vaporetto pier. But we need to sail past the island one more time.

12. In the meantime, the rain intensifies, we make the final frame through the glass of the boat and set off towards the pier.

"... A quarantine station, a grave for plague victims and a former shelter for the insane - the tiny island of Poveglia, hidden from view in the Venetian lagoon, has managed to acquire many unpleasant legends over the course of its long existence. Now it stands empty - a group of dilapidated and dilapidated buildings , eaten by nature, are slowly disappearing into oblivion, along with their secrets, just two miles from the luxurious palaces of the Grand Canal ... ".

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