Lazzaretto Vecchio
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| Waters | Venice lagoon | |
| Geographical location | 45 ° 24 ' N , 12 ° 22' E | |
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| length | 220 m | |
| width | 145 m | |
| surface | 2.58 hectares | |
| Highest elevation | 2 m | |
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Lazzaretto Vecchio is an island in the Venice lagoon south of the city, a good 50 meters west of the Lido . The island is 220 meters long and up to 145 meters wide and reaches a height of two meters. It is now uninhabited and has an area of 2.58 hectares (25,799 square meters).
On the island was the church of Santa Maria di Nazareth , from which the term Lazzaretto is said to have originated through gradual shifting of sounds via Nazareth. A picture of the Madonna from this church is now in the church of the same name, Santa Maria di Nazareth (Scalzi) , also called Chiesa degli Scalzi, which is located in Cannaregio next to the Stazione S. Lucia train station .
Lazzaretto Vecchio was a place of accommodation for plague sufferers as early as the 14th century and coined the term hospital . The Venetians named the Ionian Islands near Corfu and Ithaca after the island .
Through the usual military use in the defensive ring around Venice, then the closure of the garrison at the beginning of the 20th century, the island achieved its current status as a home for abandoned dogs or general animal shelter.
Since 2007, archaeologists have found more than 1500 skeletons on the island, mostly from victims of the plague epidemics between 1423 and 1630. The dead were buried in individual graves as well as in mass graves.
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Individual evidence
- ↑ Venice islands: All the islands of Venice by area ( Memento of March 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ 1500 skeletons discovered on "Plague Island" near Venice , in: Welt Online, June 13, 2007.