Discovering a Less Known Island of the Venetian Lagoon: Lazzaretto Nuovo

by Monica Gambarotto | Sep 30, 2023 | environment, lagoon and islands, preservation, history, Venetian lagoon | 0 comments

For over two years, during the pandemic, we were concerned with terms such as “isolation”, “social distance”, “quarantine”… but do you know from where all these terms, and behaviors, came from? In this post you will find out how the Venetian Republic would cope in the past with epidemics and how life was like in isolation in the Venetian Lazarets.