The name of Ioannis Kapodistrias was given to a park in the center of the Lausanne, Switzerland, where a bust of modern Greece’s first governor is located.
A ceremony renaming the park comes on the occasion of the 200th anniversary of the start of the Greek War of Independence.
Every year on February 11, the date of birth of Kapodistrias, a wreath-laying ceremony is held at his bust in the park.
This year, on the occasion of the Greek Revolution’s bicentennial, the Municipality of Lausanne, in collaboration with Greek and philhellenic associations and with the support of Greek diplomatic missions in Switzerland, decided to name the area “allée Kapodistria”.
Athens Mayor Costas Bakogiannis represented the Greek side.
