Fort St Angelo
Waterfront citadel, once the Knights' headquarters, that held out through a sixteenth-century siege.
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This guide to Fort St Angelo, across the Grand Harbour from Valletta, takes you into the summer of fifteen sixty-five, when the Knights of Saint John held this fort against an Ottoman army. It centres on the seventy-year-old Grand Master Jean de La Valette and the day the tide carried something from fallen Fort Saint Elmo toward these walls. Along the way you'll weigh one of the siege's most retold tales against its sceptics. Best heard on the ramparts, facing Saint Elmo.
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