Fortifications Interpretation Centre
Sixteenth-century storehouse turned museum of military architecture, with detailed fortress models.
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This guide to the Fortifications Interpretation Centre in Valletta starts with a coat of arms on a plain stone warehouse and a question nobody can answer: what was this hall built to hold? It follows the building from the Grand Master whose shield marks the front, through its years as a school for artillery, to the air raids of the Second World War. Best heard standing in the street, facing the front of the building.
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