Post by Administrator on Apr 23, 2008 18:46:42 GMT 10
In early 1943, an Italian export company, Mabo SA, sponsored the publication of a calendar that featured 12 watercolours of the Dodecanese islands, then under Italian dominion.
The month of June was adorned by a charming watercolour of the Kavos promontory by an unknown artist. It is reproduced here:
Most prominent in the painting is Florestano di Fausto's beautiful Palazzina della Delegazione which was erected in 1926 as part of the Italian regime's ambitious programme of colonial construction in the islands. As is well known, the building only stood for some fifteen years before its destruction in the hostilities in February 1941, curiously two years before the calendar's publication. Today, its surviving lower level, which serves as one of the island's bars, is the only reminder of its former grandeur.
To the right stand the some of the houses of Kavos and the eighteenth century mosque which has recently been re-opened as a museum of the island's more recent history.
Another irony of this calendar is that Castellorizo was to be taken by the Allies in September 1943 following Italy's surrender, while the calendar was still in circulation.
Nicholas
The month of June was adorned by a charming watercolour of the Kavos promontory by an unknown artist. It is reproduced here:
Most prominent in the painting is Florestano di Fausto's beautiful Palazzina della Delegazione which was erected in 1926 as part of the Italian regime's ambitious programme of colonial construction in the islands. As is well known, the building only stood for some fifteen years before its destruction in the hostilities in February 1941, curiously two years before the calendar's publication. Today, its surviving lower level, which serves as one of the island's bars, is the only reminder of its former grandeur.
To the right stand the some of the houses of Kavos and the eighteenth century mosque which has recently been re-opened as a museum of the island's more recent history.
Another irony of this calendar is that Castellorizo was to be taken by the Allies in September 1943 following Italy's surrender, while the calendar was still in circulation.
Nicholas
