Birgu Waterfront
Restored harbourside promenade of yachts, galley-era palaces and a castle-fronted Victorian naval bakery.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Birgu Waterfront, across the Grand Harbour from Valletta, is about the people who worked this quay rather than the ones who fought from it. It moves from the shipwrights of the Knights' galley arsenal to the Victorian bakers and steam ovens that fed a British fleet, and the English architect William Scamp who built over their slipway. Best heard at the water's edge, facing the long castle-like stone front among the yachts.
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