Poveglia might be a forgotten place in the Venetian Lagoon if not for a more recent feature: a digital For Sale sign.(…)
The stakes escalated last Wednesday when the first phase of the bidding process was made public. Two bids qualified, one from an anonymous corporate investor, the other from donations collected by Friends of Poveglia. So far, the citizens’ group is decidedly in second place: It bid 160,000 euros, or about $220,000, compared with 513,000 euros — $705,000 — by the corporate investor.