Palace of St Michael and St George

The Palace of St. Michael and St. George is a palace in Corfu City on the island of Corfu, Greece. Commissioned by means of Sir Thomas Maitland, it at the beginning served as the house of the British Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands. It turned into built between 1819 and 1824, to a neoclassical layout of Colonel George Whitmore. The constructing is likewise known as the Royal Palace, the City Palace, or regionally through the Greek name Palaia Anaktora literally Old Palace. The palace became commissioned by way of Sir Thomas Maitland, the British Lord High Commissioner of the Ionian Islands.

It served because the High Commissioner's residence, however changed into additionally the home of the Ionian Senate and the Order of St Michael and St George. The foundation stone become laid on St. George's day in 1819, and it became finished in 1824. The area is between the vintage town of Corfu and the Venetian-technology Old Fortress. The palace was designed inside the Greek Revival fashion of neoclassical structure, and it turned into the primary constructing of that fashion to be constructed on Greek territory. It become designed by means of the British architect George Whitmore, who changed into a Colonel and later a Major-General within the Royal Engineers.