Bażilika tal-Madonna Ta' Pinu
Neo-Romanesque basilica of pale stone built around a small chapel that once escaped demolition.
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This guide to the Basilica of Ta' Pinu, on Gozo near Valletta, is about the building as an object: what it was raised around, and who paid for it. It reaches back to a papal visitor's demolition order in fifteen seventy-five and a village keeper named Pinu Gauci, then to a woman from Għarb named Karmni Grima in eighteen eighty-three. You'll hear where the money and the labour came from when work began in nineteen twenty. Start at the front of the nave, facing the altar.
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