Greek Minister of Education to Attend Opening of Capodistrias Museum

The Greek President, Prokopis Pavlopoulos, will attend the opening of the Museum on Sunday 15 October and Mr. Gavroglou will represent the Government at the event.

At the opening of the renovated Museum there will be events to promote the heirlooms of Ioannis Capodistrias, the first Governor of Modern Greece. There will be a religious liturgy at the tomb of this great Corfiot politician and later on the same day Anastasios Ioannis Metaxas, Professor at Athens Capodistrian University, will give a talk.

The Event Programme as announced by the Region of Ionian Islands and which both the President and Minister will attend is as follows:
11.00     Religious Liturgy at the Tomb of Capodistrias at Platytera.
12.00     Inauguration of the Capodistrias Museum at Koukouritsa
17.30     Event at the Ionian Academy
- Talk by Professor Anastasios Ioannis Metaxas, Athens University: “Ioannis Capodistrias and the ‘other’ Europe.”
- Theatrical performance from Natalia Capodistria: “Dialogue between the Governor and Georgios Mavromichalis.”
- Concert by the Corfu Philharmonic Association.