Gardjola gardens
Bastion-tip garden with a carved stone lookout and sweeping views over the Grand Harbour.
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This guide to the Gardjola Gardens in Senglea, across the Grand Harbour from Valletta, is about the small stone lookout at the tip of the bastion and the three symbols carved on it. It follows one of them, a crane, back into the medieval books of animal lore and the strange habit they credited the bird with. Best heard standing right beside the sentry box, facing Valletta across the water.
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