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Must See

Flowers in bloom at a
taverna near the Paper
Money Museum

attractive museum is located rulers changed over time. The
580 BC in the house where he lived first banknote was issued in
British pounds, while later
for many of his later years
and died in 1857. The displays notes show the German and
The Temple of Artemis here include personal effects Italian currency of the war
is built with Corfu’s such as the poet’s writing years. The tour ends with the
famous Gorgon frieze as desk and many of his books. last banknotes issued in
part of its pediment. drachmas, which were
withdrawn in 2002 with the
8 introduction of the euro.
Another display shows the
énosis means “unification”, Paper Money Museum process of producing a note.
and this celebrates the 1864 ⌂ Ionikí Trápeza, Platía The museum, which opened
union of the Ionian islands Iróon Kypriakoú Agóna in 1981, is housed on the first
with the rest of Greece, when # Hours vary, check floor of a charming pink 19th­
British rule came to an end. website ∑ alphapolitis century building in which the
The marble monument has mos.gr/en/05-Banknote- first branch of the Ionian Bank
carvings symbolizing each of Museum opened in 1840.
the Ionian Islands. A statue of
Ioánnis Kapodí strias, modern This collection of Greek bank­
Greece’s first president in 1827, notes traces the way in which Bronze memorial to
stands at the end of the street the island’s currency altered the Greek resistance,
that flanks the Esplanade and as Corfu’s soci ety and New Fortress
bears his name.

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Solomos Museum
⌂ Theodórou Makri, off
Arseníou § 26610
30674 # 9:30am–
2pm Mon–Fri
Dedicated to Greece’s
most celebrated poet,
Dionysios Solomos (who
wrote the “Hymn to Liberty”,
two stanzas of which became
the national anthem), this
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