Kampana Square Kampana Square Kampana Square (Greek: Πλατεία της Καμπάνας, "Bell Square") is a square in the town of Argostoli, Kefalonia in the Ionian Islands prefecture of Greece. Historians mention that it was built during the reign of the Republic of Venice in the Ionian Islands (1500–1797). The square is located near the end of the town's main commercial street "Lithostroto", which was then called "Kranion Street". The Venetians wanted to name it St. Mark's Square but in the end it became known as "The Bell Square" because of a tower that to this day rises higher than all surrounding buildings and
Saint Emeric of Hungary that Amerigo Vespucci, the Italian explorer and the namesake of the Americas, was named after the saint. Saint Emeric of Hungary Saint Emeric () also "Henricus", "Emery," "Emerick," "Emmerich", "Emericus" or "Americus" (c. 1007 – 2 September 1031) was the son of King St. Stephen I of Hungary and Giselle of Bavaria. Emeric is assumed to be the second son of Stephen I. Named after his uncle, St. Henry II, he was the only one of Stephen's sons who reached adulthood. Emeric was educated in a strict and ascetic spirit by the Benedictine monk from Venice, Gerard from the age