In Italy, there is the "island of the dead"

Povegliya history of the island, located in the Venetian lagoon, began in the heyday of the Roman Empire when the Roman rulers made it a place of exile for patients with plague. When several thousand people brought to the island, were left to die, the island Povegliya turned into a huge "mass grave».

Several centuries later abandoned the island once again became the scene of the tragedy: in the era of the bubonic plague, the wildfire spread across Europe suffering from a plague sent back to the island, everyone who had even the slightest signs of illness. When the Romans left their patients die slowly from lack of medicine, in the Middle Ages customs were even more brutal: the living and the dead were thrown into huge pits and burned alive. Presumably died on the island of about 160 thousand people, and the charred bones are still sometimes found on the coast Povegliya.





In 1922, the island was built a hospital for the mentally ill, but in the infamous hospital fell not only patients, but also completely normal people. Hospital patients have been subjected to the most terrible experiments that produce the most primitive tools. In the mid-20th century, some inhabitants of Italy had tried to move to the island, however, frightened by his sinister atmosphere, quickly left the place.





Now the island is uninhabited Povegliya.

via factroom.ru