The story of this island in Venice amazes by the way people tell it. During the epidemic of the Black Plague, the island was the last refuge for about 160,000 patients, with 50% of its soil consisting of the ashes of burnt corpses.
In the 1920’s, the Italian government opened a hospital for the mentally ill on the island. The patients kept complaining that they had headaches and that the island was full of souls that died in terrible agony. Moreover, the head physician is said to have conducted terrible experiments with the ill. It remains a mystery, though, why he committed suicide, having jumped from the island belfry. After that, the hospital was closed.
Nowadays, the island is empty, but there are many photos of abandoned hospital rooms and the belfry on the Internet.
What a mysterious and terrible place :-(
what is area of Battleship Island ?
very interesting. thanks
You get the feeling that this place is haunted by many unsettled souls 😱
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Are you sure you have the facts right about this? The image looks like Hashima Island while you seem to be talking about Venice. I have always heard the world is shrinking...