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Residents asked to donate 99 euros each to stop luxury developers getting their hands on the infamous islandVenetians are clubbing together to bid for a tiny island in the city’s lagoon — reputedly one of the most haunted in the world — to stop it falling into the hands of a luxury hotel developer.Poveglia is now uninhabited but served as a quarantine station for people dying of infectious diseases in the 18th century. A 20th century nursing home, now abandoned, was allegedly used for experiments on the mentally ill.
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