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Byzantine museum of Zakynthos.

The Museum contains an excellent collection of icons from the Byzantine era to the 19th century, magnificent wooded carved iconostases, wall-paintings of 12th-13th and 17th-18th centuries, sculptural works of the Hellenistic, Byzantine and Post-Byzantine periods as well as a model of the town of Zakynthos, during the period 1930-1950.
Location: Solomos Square, town of Zakynthos.
Opening Days-Hours:
Daily: 08:30 - 15:00, Monday: closed

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The Solomos Museum houses the magnificent tomb of Dionysios
Solomos (1798-1857) and that of the other great Zakynthian poet, Andreas Calvos (1792-1869). In the entrance is a piece of the holly bush on Strani hill in the shadow of which Solomos was inspired to write "Ode to Liberty" in May 1823 which later became the Greek national anthem, and gis poem "The Free Beseiged" in May 1823. The rooms on the upper floor contain objects that had belonged to the great poet and other distinguished Zakynthian scholars as well as collections that have been donated to the museum.
Information: +30-695-48982

The Perfecture of Zakynthos

The Byzantine Museum of Zakynthos is in Solomos Square. You turn right after the entering, ascend to the upper floor and cross the entire length of the building before descending again to the entrance. The museum houses a rich collection of portable icons, a true panorama of ecclesiastical painting from the Byzantine years up to the 19th century, with about a thousand religious paintings by post-Byzantine, Ionian and Zakynthian artists. Works are exhibited by Damaskinos, Tzanes, Kallergis, Doxaras, Koutouzis and Tsonis.

Although the older exhibits in the museum are characteristic examples of Byzantine art, the works of Panagiotis Doxaras (1622-1700), who studied in Venice, are naturalistic style and belong to the Ionian Island School. Doxaras' son Nicholas continued in the Western tradition, as did Nicholaos Koutouzis (1741-1813). whose works can be found in the museum as well as in the church of Agios Dionysios.
Templa (icon screens) from the churches of the Pantokrator and Agios Dimitrios can be found in the Museum, as well as parts of the exterior of Agios Andreas of Volimes.
In addition, Hellenistic and Byzantine sculptures and statues are also accommodated here.