Bażilika Santwarju tal-Madonna tal-Karmnu
Carmelite basilica with a towering oval dome, rebuilt after wartime ruin and rich in knights' gifts.
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This guide to the Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Valletta follows the money behind one of the city's best-known domes. It moves between a Grand Master's land deal in fifteen seventy, the knights who funded chapels and paintings here, and the friars' choice after the bombing of nineteen forty-two. Best heard on Old Theatre Street with the dome above you.
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