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Mon Repos, Corfu

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Mon Repos is a neoclassical villa in the Palaiopolis forest south of Corfu City, Greece, built between 1828 and 1831 to a design by Colonel George Whitmore and the civil engineer J. Harper as a summer residence for Frederick Adam, the British Lord High Commissioner of the United States of the Ionian Islands, and his wife Diamantina Palatino. After Corfu united with Greece in 1864 the villa passed to King George I, who named it Mon Repos, and it remained a summer residence of the Greek royal family until King Constantine II left Greece in 1967; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born there in 1921. Since 2001 the building has housed the Museum of Palaiopolis-Mon Repos, displaying nineteenth-century furnishings and archaeological finds from ancient Corfu. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

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Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
Municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands, Greece 2
Completed YearSourced to the subject's own account
1828 2
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Villa 2
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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1. Mon Repos, Corfu (Wikipedia)
  • Mon Repos, Corfu, British High Commissioners section
    The villa was built as a summer residence for the British Lord High Commissioner of the United States of the Ionian Islands, Frederick Adam, and his second wife (a Corfiot), Diamantina 'Nina' Palatino, in 1828-1831, although they had to vacate the villa soon afterwards in 1832 when Adam was sent to serve in Madras, India.
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    Mon Repos is a neoclassical villa in the Palaiopolis forest south of Corfu City, Greece, built between 1828 and 1831 to a design by Colonel George Whitmore and the civil engineer J. Harper as a summer residence for Frederick Adam, the British Lord High Commissioner of the United States of the Ionian Islands, and his wife Diamantina Palatino. After Corfu united with Greece in 1864 the villa passed to King George I, who named it Mon Repos, and it remained a summer residence of the Greek royal family until King Constantine II left Greece in 1967; Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, was born there in 1921. Since 2001 the building has housed the Museum of Palaiopolis-Mon Repos, displaying nineteenth-century furnishings and archaeological finds from ancient Corfu.
  • In Style: Neoclassical Architecture, Wikipedia categories
    Category:Neoclassical architecture in Greece
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2. Mon Repos, Corfu (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata date-of-opening/inception statement (1828)
    Wikidata item Q824940, property P571: 1828
  • Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Villa)
    Wikidata item Q824940, instance of (P31): villa
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement: Municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands, Greece
    Wikidata item Q824940, property P131/P17 (location): Municipality of Central Corfu and Diapontia Islands, Greece
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