# Poveglia

> small island located between Venice and Lido in the Venetian Lagoon, for more than 100 years (beginning in 1776), used as a quarantine station for those suffering the plague and other diseases, and later as a mental hospital (closed in 1968)

**Wikidata**: [Q1145492](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1145492)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poveglia)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/poveglia


## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013
2. GeoNames
3. BBC Things