modern with functional, regular urban planning. Some very interesting buildings representative of traditional architecture can be seen here. People whose names were related to modern Greek history once lived in some of them. The mansion of the Trikoupis family, Palamas' House, Valvios Library, Christos and Sophia Moschandreou Gallery of Modern Art emphasize the fact that Missolonghi has always been a city of some wealth and refinement. In addition, the Centre of Culture and Art, Diexodos, which hosts cultural events and exhibitions as well as the Museum of History and Art is housed in a neo-classical building in Markos Botsaris Square and hosts a collection of paintings indicative of the struggle of Missolonghi, further boosting the city's cultural and artistic profile. The Messolonghi Byron Society also, founded in 1991 in the city, is a non profit organisation which is devoted to promoting scholarly and general understanding of Lord Byron's life and poetry as well as cultivating appreciation for other historical figures in the 19th-century international Philhellenic movement, idealists who, like Byron, gave their fortunes, talents, and lives for the cause of Greek War of Independence. The Messolonghi Byron Center is now located in the upper floor of Byron House. Today, the Entrance Gate remains intact and so does part of the fortification of the Free Besieged which was rebuilt by King Otto. Past the gate, there is the Garden of Heroes where several famous and some anonymous heroes who fought during the Heroic Sortie are buried. The Garden of Heroes is the equivalent of the Elysian Fields for modern Greece. Every year the Memorial Day for the Exodus is celebrated on Palm Sunday (the Sunday before Easter); the Greek State is represented by high-ranking officials and foreign countries by their ambassadors. Media Radiofonikos Stathmos Mesolongiou,(Radio Missolonghi 92FM),Website Landmarks Museum of the History and the Art of the Sacred City of Messolonghi, Website Centre of Culture and Art, Diexodos,Website Christos and Sophia Mosxandreou Gallery of Modern Art The Messolonghi Byron Society-International Research Center for Lord Byron and Philhellenism,Website Notable people Lord Byron died here in 1824 and is commemorated by a cenotaph and a statue Epameinontas Deligeorgis (1829–1879), former Prime Minister of Greece John Lykoudis (1910–1980), major and medical doctor involved in the treatment of peptic ulcer disease Miltiadis Malakasis (1869–1943), poet Spyros Moustaklis, Army officer, democracy activist during the junta Thanasoulas Valtinos (1801 or 1802-1870 or 1877), revolutionary of the Greek