The etate, owned by the Capodistria family for the past 350 years, is the very place where Ioannis Capodistrias, first governor of the independent Greek state, dreamt of retiring to.

Under the majestic 300-year-old magnolia trees, empress Sissi of Austria used to take her regular Greek-language lessons with well-known Corfiot author Konstandinos Christomanos.