The Italian Chapel was built and decorated by prisoners of war during World War Two. advertisement. BBC. The chapel still linking Orkney and Italy - 80 years after WW2 ended.

I flew into a tiny slingshot of an airport in the only sizable town, Kirkwall. ... Perched on a little rise above this harbor is Orkney's most fascinating WWII site: the Italian Chapel.

Director Francesca Archibugi, whose feminist fascist-era saga “La Storia” was Italy’s biggest TV event of 2023, is set to return behind camera on World War II drama “The Italian Chapel ...