Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Poveglia island in the Venetian Lagoon (Getty/iStock) Venetian activists will transform part of an abandoned island into a public ...

The abandoned Venetian island of Poveglia — site of a plague pit and former asylum — is about to take on a happier new identity. On August 1, a group of Venetians will take possession of the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Some cities suffering the consequences of mass tourism have begun concealing and cordoning off small, tucked-away pockets for locals to enjoy without tourists. Amsterdam has its hidden swimming spots ...