The Ionian Academy On The The Greek Island Of Corfu Editorial Photo

This building date back to XVIII century and in origin it was a Venetian barracks called `Grimani`. In the following century and to be precise in 1824 it became the seat of the Ionian Academy and later, after the unification of the Ionian Islands with Greece, became the municipal Library. The Ionian Academy was known in all Greece as the centre of a literary rebirth with the head of the poets Solomos and Mavilis. In 1943 the building was partially destroyed from Italian bombing but it was soon restructured. Currently it`s the seat of Rectorate of the Ionian University, that is the only university in all the Ionian Islands.