Italy's Poveglia island up for public auction

Poveglia, an island just off the coast of Italy that's considered one of the most haunted places in the world, is being put up for auction as a way for the country to settle its public debt, TIME is reporting. During the plague outbreak, the 17-acre

It's called the single most haunted place in the world and it's up for sale. Let me introduce you to Poveglia, a small, deserted island in the Venetian lagoon that'lll be going on the auction block next month.

"Poveglia served as a checkpoint for ships going to Venice. After a pair of ships carrying plague victims arrived in 1793, the island was sealed off and turned into a quarantine zone for people with infectious diseases, a role it 

Poveglia Island began as a Roman fortification that grew into a shipping point for ships that were traveling to Venice, that is until the late 1700s when the first plague victims arrived on the island. Then the island was then 

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