A Venetian group won a bid to oversee part of Poveglia island, preventing private development. The group, Poveglia per tutti, will control the northmost island's green space under a six-year lease.

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 ...

Poveglia’s reputation as a haunted island hides a truth far more disturbing than any ghost story. Behind the myths of plague pits and mad doctors lies a century of war damage, fires, political neglect ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Poveglia: The Island of Non Return Visit one of the darkest places in Italy where hundreds of souls were forgotten in time. After an acclaimed career as a ...

All the Latest Game Footage and Images from Poveglia: The Island of No Return Venture into the Island from Which No One Returns Poveglia: The Island of No Return is a third-person horror and action ...

No movie set can match the bone-chilling reality of these terrifying locations! Join us as we explore places where true ...

A stout, balding, no nonsense sort of fellow, the local cold meats delivery man gave no hint of drama or exaggeration in a Venice bar where word had spread two Australian journalists planned to spend ...

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 ...