Dingli Cliffs
Sheer limestone sea cliffs on Malta's highest ground, topped by a lone seventeenth-century chapel.
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This guide to Dingli Cliffs, on the high western edge of Malta near Valletta, looks at the small chapel of St Mary Magdalene and one plaque beside its door. It follows the old right of fugitives to shelter in Maltese churches, the eighteenth-century quarrel between Grand Master Pinto and Rome over who could reach them, and the lonely country chapels caught in the middle. Best heard standing on the chapel's little forecourt, facing the doorway.
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