Agia Eleousa
Alpine-style village built for Italian settlers, later a tuberculosis sanatorium, now a ruin.
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This guide to Agia Eleousa in Rhodes follows the mountain village Italian governor Mario Lago built in 1935 as an Alpine-style settlement called Campochiaro, home to woodcutters from the Fiemme valley who raised timber buildings with arched balconies and curved verandas. After the Italians left in 1947, Greece turned the schoolhouse into a tuberculosis sanatorium named for Queen Frederica. Walk the corridors and count the empty rooms of a hospital built for eighty patients at a time.
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