Text and photographs by Megakles Rogakos, MA MA PhD The British Cemetery in Corfu is located on the hill of San Salvatore, in the proximity of the San Rocco square. Founded in 1814, when Corfu became a British Protectorate (1814-1864), it was used as a place where the British officials, soldiers and residents were interred. [...]
By Megakles Rogakos, MA MA PhD The Miracle of Saint Spyridon concerns the salvation of Corfu from the Ottomans, when they threatened the island with a powerful and destructive siege that took place on 8 July – 21 August 1716. Saint Spyridon (270-348), Bishop of Trimythous, is one of the most beloved saints of the [...]
Corfu has reason to commemorate the benefit it received from the British Protection of the period 1814-1864, during which pivotal projects were completed, such as the road network (1814), the Ionian Academy (1824), the Palace of St Michael and St George (1824), the Aqueduct (1827), the covered Agora/Markas (1829), the Mon Repos (1831), the Penitentiary [...]
The portrait of Lord Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford (1766-1827), as well as the degree awarded to him by the University of Oxford in 1819, as part of the honoured person’s efforts to establish and organise the Ionian Academy, now adorn the Ionian University, after the acceptance by the Senate of the Academic Foundation [...]
Out of respect for the Corfu Reading Society, the oldest literary institution in Greece, the Corfu Heritage Foundation includes in its founding mission the purpose of supporting it technocratically and financially. The Flamburiari family has always been aiding the Society. In fact, Count Georgios L. Flamburiaris, who served as President of the Society during the [...]
The French Occupation of Corfu – 1797-1799 & 1807-1814 By Frank Giles On 8 May 1797, following Napoleon Bonaparte’s brilliant campaign in Northern Italy, the Venetian Senate signified its readiness to accept the conqueror’s terms. La Serenissima had politically ceased to exist and its empire lay open to the first taker. Napoleon was in no [...]
PRESS RELEASE The Corfu Heritage Foundation, under the auspices and with the support of the Region of Ionian Islands and with the collaboration of the Municipality of Corfu, the Ionian University and the Cultural Foundation of Tinos, presents the art exhibition “Hymn to Liberty” curated by Art Historian Dr Megakles Rogakos. Desiring to promote the role [...]
Count Flamburiari welcomes the President in front of the Cavalieri Hotel. Count Flamburiari draws the President's attention at the commemorative plaque for George Rallis. Her Excellency President of the Hellenic Republic, Mrs Katerina Sakellaropoulou, and the Governor of the Ionian Islands, Mrs Rodi Kratsa-Tsagaropoulou, are being welcomed by Count Spiro Flamburiari at the entrance of [...]
PRESS RELEASE The Cultural Foundation of Tinos in collaboration with the Corfu Heritage Foundation presents the visual art exhibition “Ex-Staseis: Attempts at the Representation of Liberty” curated by Art Historian Dr Megakles Rogakos. Rationale: On the occasion of celebrating the 200th anniversary of the Greek Revolution of 1821, which concerns the liberation of the nation [...]
Entry for the Flamburiari Family Flamburiari, family from Constantinople sheltered after the fall of 1453 in Venice, and thence in Crete whence, following the island’s fall in 1669, resorted in Zante. But even previously, 1512, a Flamburiari family is encountered at Gaitani village of Zante. Chief of the family from Crete appears to be Konstaninos, [...]