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Poveglia Island: Venice’s Forbidden Plague Asylum Where the Bells Still Ring
Poveglia sits in the Venetian Lagoon, just a short boat ride from Venice. From far away it looks calm and green. Up close, it feels like a locked room full of old pain. Legend holds that during the plague years, boats brought the sick here with no goodbyes, fires burned day and night, and the island turned into a grave that never stopped growing. How much of that is history and how much is legend is still argued over.
Years later, Poveglia was used again, this time, the story says, as an asylum. The same water that held back disease also held back the world. Stories say patients heard…
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