Birgu is also known by its title Città Vittoriosa (“Victorious City“).
[Birgu] is an old fortified city on the south side of the Grand Harbour in the South Eastern Region of Malta. The city occupies a promontory of land with Fort Saint Angelo at its head and the city of Cospicua at its base. Birgu is ideally situated for safe anchorage, and over [...]
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Birgu
14 Comments CherryPie on Jan 3rd 2024
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The Inquisitor’s Palace
The Inquisitors Palace is situated in Vittoriosa, Malta. The building initially housed the Magna Curia Castellania Melitensis, a civil tribunal established by Grand Master Juan de Homedes y Coscon in 1543. Currently, it is also home to a historic house museum and the national ethnography museum.
Built in around the 1530s, what today is known as [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Dec 22nd 2023
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Red Mount Chapel
The Chapel of St Mary on the Mount, known as the Red Mount Chapel, was built between 1483-85 by Robert Curraunt for William Spynke, the Benedictine prior of Lynn. It was for use by pilgrims travelling to the shrine of Our Lady at Walsingham. The chapel was built on ‘the hylle called the Lady of [...]
4 Comments CherryPie on Nov 7th 2023
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The Exorcist’s House
Leaving St Nicholas’ chapel via the south porch leads to the churchyard where you can find a small 7th Century cottage known as the “Exorcist’s house”. The building dates from 1635, and is thought to replace an earlier building which was home to members of the clergy who served St Nicholas’ chapel, located adjacent to [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 6th 2023
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St Nicholas’ Chapel
The following link explains the historic features that can be found within the chapel:
A tour of St Nicholas’ Chapel
9 Comments CherryPie on Nov 4th 2023
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Bank House
A brief history quoted from an information pack in our room at Bank House:
Described by Nikolaus Pevsner as one of the finest houses in King’s Lynn, Bank House was built in the early 18th Century for one of the King’s Lynn’s many rich and successful merchants. The house is Grade II* listed and is recognised [...]
6 Comments CherryPie on Nov 2nd 2023
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Tower Gardens
The gardens are situation in what once was the friary orchard. When the friary was closed in 1538, the tower and the land around it passed to the Town Council.
Part of this land was never permanently built on. Tower Gardens was laid out in 1911 as a public park to commemorate the coronation of King [...]
2 Comments CherryPie on Nov 1st 2023
