A main artery in the new town, exemplary of French town planning, that was mapped out at the end of the 19th century and leads from Saroko square to Garitsa and Anemomylos. Alexandras avenue was named after the daughter of King George I and Queen Olga, who was born in Corfu, at the Mon Repos palace, in 1870 and died in Moscow, in 1891, after the birth of her second son from her marriage to the Grand Duke Paul, son of the Russian Czar Alexander II. The mansions and homes of the most affluent families of Corfu, some of which have survived to our days, were constructed along this majestic avenue.