Barrakka Lift
Fifty-eight-metre lift tower linking a harbour ferry landing to clifftop gardens in seconds.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Barrakka Lift in Valletta follows the small coins that kept a lift running up the Grand Harbour bastions from nineteen oh five, and the sailors, soldiers and dockyard workers who paid them. It touches the tram company that built the first steel tower and the long decline of the harbour trade it relied on. Best heard at the foot of the tower, looking up at its mesh-wrapped shaft.
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