Palamas had its impact on Messolonghi as well. At a house of architectural distinction, the ancestor of the Palamanians, Panagiotis Palamas, was born in 1722. He was considered the teacher of Greek origins. In the same house lived the national poet Kostis Palamas after he became an orphan in 1865 and went to the house of his father�s brother Demetrios. Here Kostis Palamas stayed until he completed his education and wrote his first poems. In the halls, corridors, and balcony conservatory of the house, one finds personal items, paintings, and documents from his life and great deeds. Opposite this residence is the house that was the birthplace of the politician Spiridon Trikoupis, a place where Harilaos Trikoupis, a great politician of modern Greece, also lived.

It seems more thancoincidence that the two main facets of modern Greece, the political and the poetical, met at the same place, with the houses of Harilaos Trikoupis and Kostas Palamas neighboring each other in the old part of the city. Soon the former house will be given to the community by the present owner, its last inheritor Kostandinos Trikoupis, and will become the Tricoupian museum.

Many local places stir the emotions and memories of visitors, among others the neighborhood of Kapsali where the house Lord Byron occupied was, the noble house of John Trikoupi situated at the end of Mayer Road near the "first arch", the noble house of Zafirio or Zinovio Valvi where the public library is housed, and the local historical center. Other popular points of pilgrimage include the