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The house he lived in, where he wrote and died, after being destroyed by the WWII bombardments, was later restructured and still exists to this day. In Solomos’s house, the Company of Corfu Studies founded the Centre for Solomos Studies, which operates as “Solomos Museum”.
It is known that Greece’s national poet Dionysios Solomos lived most of his life, and until his death (1798-1857) in Corfu, where he wrote the biggest part, as well as the most significant one, of hiw writings, including «The Free Besieged » .
The house he lived in, where he wrote and died, after being destroyed by the WWII bombardments, was later restructured and still exists to this day. In Solomos’s house, the Company of Corfu Studies founded the Centre for Solomos Studies, which operates as “Solomos Museum”.
The poet’s desk and a small autograph of his are kept in the house. There is also exhibited photographic material, referring to the places, the people and the facts that are connected to the life, the works and the era of Solomos.
There is also a rich Solomos library, which is continuously enriched, and which contains all the old publicatios of the «Hymn to Freedom», as well as a series of portraits of the poet, and the members of the so-called Solomos School.
The katholikon of St. Francis monastery was one of the greatest temples of Venetian Candia. When Candia fell to the Turks in 1669, the temple was converted into an imperial mosque dedicated to Muhammad the Conqueror, the conqueror of Constantinople.
Home to the Cretan vendetta, Sfakia is where you will see tight lipped Cretans dressed in black.
The Benaki Museum is a complex architectural composition, with an interesting history.The aim of the museum is the protection, preservation, and showcasing of the cultural heritage, as well as the connection of it to the modern social and scientific network.
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