Poveglia is a small island near Venice that was used as a quarantine for possibly 160,000 people with the plague from 1793 to 1814. Mass graves of the plagues victims have been found. Napoleon also used it to store weapons. To top it off, from 1922 to 1968 there was a mental hospital with a doctor rumoured to have tortured and killed many patients.
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