Poveglia, Italy
On a small island in the Venetian lagoon sits an abandoned, decrepit complex of buildings, long abandoned and left to rot. This island once served as a quarantine district during various phases of Black Plague and its resurgences. Unfortunately, quarantine of victims did not slow the Black Death, as the quarantine patients were kept in large dormitories with others. Even those who weren’t infected when they arrived had a good chance of being infected while there. For many of the 160,000 infected patients who set foot on its shores, the island their final destination. After their death, the victims were buried in mass graves or cremated, ashes spread on the island where they lie to this day.
