Welcome to Poveglia Island. Thanks to Italy's difficult financial straits, this honeymoon-retreat- meets-horror-movie-set is on the market. Are you an architect who wants to easily reach the Venice Biennale, but also dreams of building a home on foundations echoing with surreal ghost stories? This could be your spot. Do you hate being alone? Solitude is no longer an issue on Poveglia, as it's estimated that the island is lush with more than 190,000 buried bodies. The classically designed foundations date back to the Romans, who used the island as a storage facility for plague victims. The island once again became the premier location for in-the-know plague sufferers during the Black Death. As bodies were thrown into burning pits en masse, the island literally resembled a 14th-century Burning Man. Image via Dirty-Mag Have a green thumb? The mixture of charred bodies and Venetian volcanic soil leave the ground fertile for the masses of grape vines that weave their succulent arms around these crumbling boho-style ruins. Do you love kids? The terrain's most famous ghost, Little Maria, is a quaint child of the plague whose dulcet tones penetrate the shabby-chic walls of the island's various mental institutions. {% ...
Welcome to Poveglia Island. Thanks to Italy's difficult financial straits, this honeymoon-retreat- meets-horror-movie-set is on the market. Are you an architect who wants to easily reach the Venice Biennale, but also dreams of building a home on foundations echoing with surreal ghost stories? This could be your spot. Do you hate being alone? Solitude is no longer an issue on Poveglia, as it's estimated that the island is lush with more than 190,000 buried bodies. The classically designed foundations date back to the Romans, who used the island as a storage facility for plague victims. The island once again became the premier location for in-the-know plague sufferers during the Black Death. As bodies were thrown into burning pits en masse, the island literally resembled a 14th-century Burning Man. Image via Dirty-Mag Have a green thumb? The mixture of charred bodies and Venetian volcanic soil leave the ground fertile for the masses of grape vines that weave their succulent arms around these crumbling boho-style ruins. Do you love kids? The terrain's most famous ghost, Little Maria, is a quaint child of the plague whose dulcet tones penetrate the shabby-chic walls of the island's various mental institutions. {% ...