http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Du5oS
Watch the moving YouTube elegy about the fate of Corfu's demolished Municipal Theatre, and about the building that replaced it.
It could have been restored, it's often said, in spite of the devastating effect of the German incendiary bombs dropped on Corfu after midnight on 13 September 1943 (until around 4am on 14 September) and the destructive fires that started. The Ionian Parliament and Ionian Academy buildings were eventually restored.
Corfu had no John Betjeman at the time.
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