The museum behind the statue is the HISTORICAL MUSEUM OF ATHENS. Its a museum of modern Greek history (since 1821). The building itself is the original parliament and was used during the reign of King Otto. It's a great museum and well worth the visit when in Athens.
"On his resume, his strongest bullet, besides throwing the Turks off the walls of Constantinople, was that he eats them for breakfast (hence the nickname turkophago!"
Almost, O Turkophagos was a fellow named Nikitaras. I have his picture hanging on the wall of my office, blood dripping scimitars raised aloft and standing on a pile of dead Turks, while angels dressed in Greek Evzone outfits hold a banner over his head proclaiming, "Our Holy Hero"! We have a sort of "muscular" style of Christianity....
