The new town of Corfu was developed around the historic center. A suburb in the past, the square of San Rocco is now a central point and the main bus terminal of the new town from where local buses depart for the entire island. The name derives from the previously thriving Franciscan monastery in memory of San Rocco (late 15th century), who in many countries was considered a protector against the plague epidemic. A psychiatric hospital now stands at the spot where the church of the monastery was located.