Capo Colombo
Remote sandy cove below a rocky headland where wartime commandos once slipped ashore under cover of darkness.
This guide to Capo Colombo in Santorini opens just past midnight on the twenty-second of April 1944, when Anders Lassen, a Danish sea captain's son turned British commando, landed eighteen men from two disguised fishing boats on this remote beach below the headland, picked because nobody was watching it. Before dawn they marched inland to hide in a cave near Vourvoulos while a Greek guide slipped off to count the German and Italian garrison on the island. What he found split the raiders into two teams, one bound for the wireless station at Imerovigli and Lassen's for the barracks in Fira. Stand at the water's edge where those eighteen men once slipped ashore in the dark.
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