Lazzaretto

The well-preserved skeleton was found in 2006 on the Lazzaretto Nuovo island, north of the lagoon city, amid other corpses buried in a mass grave during an epidemic of plague that hit Venice in 1576.

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After a long court battle with military authorities, it was just announced that the Comune of Venezia -- Venice's city government -- has been awarded possession of a little island with a somber past: Lazzaretto Nuovo.

Veniceblog: 2005

While forced wintering on Lazzaretto Nuovo would have been a immense drag, it was like a beach party on Ibiza compared to being consigned to Lazzaretto Vecchio, the other plague isolation hospital (near the Lido), where those who actually had full-blown cases of the plague were locked up.

Veniceblog: 2005

Lazzaretto Nuovo has extraordinary archeological value and is a lovely little place today, so it's a great thing the city managed to snag it.

Lazzaretto Nuovo Turned Over To Venice 2005

While forced wintering on Lazzaretto Nuovo would have been a immense drag, it was like a beach party on Ibiza compared to being consigned to Lazzaretto Vecchio, the other plague isolation hospital (near the Lido), where those who actually had full-blown cases of the plague were locked up.

Lazzaretto Nuovo Turned Over To Venice 2005

Lazzaretto Nuovo has extraordinary archeological value and is a lovely little place today, so it's a great thing the city managed to snag it.

Veniceblog: 2005

After a long court battle with military authorities, it was just announced that the Comune of Venezia -- Venice's city government -- has been awarded possession of a little island with a somber past: Lazzaretto Nuovo.

Lazzaretto Nuovo Turned Over To Venice 2005

The Lazzaretto at Milan (perchance this story should fall into the hands of any one who does not know it, either by sight or description), is a quadrilateral and almost equilateral enclosure, outside the city, to the left of the gate called the Porta Orientale, and separated from the bastions by the width of the fosse, a road of circumvallation, and a smaller moat running round the building itself.

Chapter XXVIII 1909

Bailiffs were sent around, who drove all the mendicants to the Lazzaretto, who even brought those bound who made any resistance; for each one of whom a premium of ten soldi1 was assigned to them; so true is it that, even in the scarcest times, public money may always be found to be employed foolishly.

Chapter XXVIII 1909