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+name: "Leros, Greece"
+subtitle: "Italy's most intact rationalist urbanism outside Italy, on a Greek island"
+date: 2026-06-21
+link: "https://www.wallpaper.com/travel/leros-island-greece-guide"
+linkText: "wallpaper.com"
+source: "Wallpaper* Travel"
+topics: [travel]
+tags: [greek-islands, rationalist-architecture, dodecanese, under-the-radar]
+description: "Leros's port town Lakki holds one of the world's most intact Italian rationalist urban ensembles — a Mussolini-era naval base with de Chirico surrealist overtones."
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+The port town of Lakki on Leros is one of the most intact examples of Italian rationalist urbanism outside Italy — boxy dwellings and art-deco municipal buildings built as a Mussolini-era naval base, with de Chirico surrealist overtones, set among 18th-century windmills and a medieval castle. Still largely off the package-holiday circuit, it layers in the weight of a notorious 1958 psychiatric hospital alongside extraordinary architectural coherence.