Empty rooms. Eleousa: STRIKING images show the desolate village of Eleousa with the eerie abandoned sanatorium that once housed TB patients and an aqu
Empty rooms. Eleousa: STRIKING images show the desolate village of Eleousa with the eerie abandoned sanatorium that once housed TB patients and an aqueduct lying testament to Italian dictator Mussolini?s failed efforts to colonise this of the images captures the empty corridors of the abandoned imposing Italian sanatorium, while another image shows an abandoned gym with full equipment waiting to be was established in 1935 in the mist of Benito Mussolini?s fascist delirium as a base for lumberjacks & sawyers who emigrated from the Fiemme Valley in North original name of the village was CAMPOCHIARO. Its main first population were 180 Italians who had come to Rhodes, Greece during this Italians were drawn to the area because of its dense forest that could provide the raw materials for their this time the Governor of the island was appointed by the fascist government of Italy and the island?s native Greek inhabitants were treated as second class was one of the four rural villages built during the Italian dictatorship in attempts to control all the agricultural production of the island and promote the political Sanatorium of Saint Eleousa represents an important part of the history of respiratory medicine in the lack of quality food and medical care in 1936 created the ideal conditions for tuberculosis to flourish, as was the case even in less devastated northern European sanatorium then served as a TB treatment centre for these disease stricken the Second World War, the Italian settlers had long since left: some had already returned home at the beginning of the war, and the rest had moved away after the German army occupied the island in September 1943 and established a military support point in Eleousa there are now around 250 inhabitants, under Greek control since 1946 with the neighbourhood sanatorium lying eerily empty and desol
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