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In this article one can read:

"Under the watchful eye of Mussolini, a new town, Portolago, was created in the 1930s, with its now infamous Italian Rationalist art-deco architecture and streets wide enough for military parading. The Greeks later renamed it Lakki."

Yet in International style (architecture) I found:

"The town of Portolago (now Lakki) in the Greek Dodecanese island of Leros represents some of the most interesting urban planning from the fascist regime in the Dodecanese; an extraordinary examplee of city takeover in the International style known as Italian rationalist. The symbolism of the shapes is reflected with exemplary effectiveness in the buildings of Lakki: the administration building, the metaphysical tower of the market, the cinema-theatre, the Hotel Roma (now Hotel Leros), the church of Saint Francisco and the hospital are fine examples of the style."

Is the first one an objective point of view?

I agree totally with the critic above. The Writer of this article apparently has no idea about modern Architecture. I don't know who in 2006 can still judge the italian rationalism as "infamous": to me this is just a POV, and it should therefore be canceled from the article. alex2006 10:20, 4 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Spam policy & External links policy

Please can you do something about blocking someone or block the article so it can be change only from the people that have work on it abecause a vandal every day deletes all the external links from informative websites of the island.Thank you Pireotis 07:20, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

see User_talk:Pireotis Spamming Leros--Hu12 09:48, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Leros Mental Institution

Why isn't the Mental Hospital of Leros mentioned in the article? The hospital is well-known due to the torturing of patients there during thr 80s. Mitsos 11:50, 30 June 2007 (UTC)