The 'haunted' Italian island will be refurbished and turned into a public lagoon by Italian activists, Poveglia per Tutti ...

Have you ever heard of the story of the haunted island of Poveglia? Rumors about the island have been shared over several ...

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 ...

Venetian activists will transform part of an abandoned island into a public park, where locals can escape the millions of tourists that visit the city each year. The grassroots group, named Poveglia ...

A group of Venetian locals won a bid to oversee part of one of the city's islands that was at risk of being turned over to private developers. The group, Poveglia per tutti (Poveglia for all), told ...