A central and very characteristic street of the old town of Corfu, which owes its name to the Corfiot scholar and theologian, master teacher Nikiforos Theotokis, who, at the end of the 18th century, was elected archbishop of the southern provinces of the Russian empire and died in Moscow. The street is depicted in Charalambos Pachis's renowned painting May Day in Corfu as a sample of Corfiot architecture with the characteristic arches on their facades. In some of the buildings, the keystones of the arches are decorated with mourionia, i.e. sculpted stone heads (gargoyls).