This church was built in 1633 under the New Fortress in Kerkyra by the Franciscan monks and the name of the monastery is due to them. It is said that they brought with them the miraculous image of the Virgin Mary. The church was dedicated to Madonna del Carmine and belonged to the monastery of the Holy Spirit in Venice. In 1716 it was severely damaged by the Turkish siege and was rebuilt in 1723.
During the French occupation the monastery was abolished and the first public library was housed. Ioannis Kapodistrias, an education inspector in the Ionian State, later established there the first Greek school for the training of civil servants.
But now it looks like abandoned