There was a POW camp in Orkney which held a lot of Italians; they built this chapel.
http://www.orkneypics.com/webpage/page/page045.html
But when I did an internet search to find it, I found a
lot of POW built chapels survive, many of them built by Italians.
I'd be willing to bet none of the Italian POWs were captured in a climate anything like Orkney- maybe they built the chapel to pray fro warmer weather?