Mandraki organised beach in the city of Rhodes was developed during the period of Italian occupation as part of the island’s broader tourist enhancement efforts. The organised beach facility known as La Ronda was designed by Italian architect Armando Bernabiti (1900-1970) as a modern tourist and entertainment centre. Constructed between 1935 and 1938, the building served as a bathing and recreational facility and included the now-famous diving platform (trampoline) in the sea. After the liberation, the building was renamed ELLIE, and it remains notable for its eclectic architectural style, characteristic of the Italian colonial architecture of the period in the region. Fascist modernism is combined with influences from the East, Venetian neo-Gothic details, and elements of Mediterranean island vernacular architecture. The ELLIE building stands out prominently on Rhodes’s waterfront, dominated by a cylindrical, semi-open-air space featuring large arched openings and a dome with small rhomboidal apertures –reminiscent of an Ottoman hammam. The building was an excellent example of organised sea-bathing infrastructure. The ground floor housed storage areas for canoes, boats, and related equipment, as well as a laundry and ironing service, and a kitchen that served the first floor via an internal staircase. The north wing contained changing rooms on both levels. After the liberation, the ground floor of the main building was repurposed as a club for the crew of the USNS Courier (T-AK 46), a small harbour cargo ship stationed in the Mediterranean in late 1944 and into 1945, from which the “Voice of America” was broadcast at the time. In 1987, the Ministry of Culture designated the ELLIE as a historic monument.