All about Zakynthos

The two-storey house "of Gouvernadoros", with an external marble staircase and small red windows, was so named because the military commander of the island lived there and it was state property. For a time the building served as a barracks

Under the French Republicans, the Provisional Town Hall was housed there and in the same building at the time of the occupation of the Ionian Islands by the Russo-Turks was the office of the Russian governor of the island, Nikolaos Tisengausen, who ruled Zakynthos with the Knuto.

Shortly afterwards, this building became the seat of the "Prezidentsa", the local government and was associated with the political activity of Antonios Martinegos, who in 1801 raised the English "pantiera" at the castle and declared Zakynthos a self-governing and independent state from the Ionian Islands.