Ġnien Hastings
Bastion-top garden around a canopied governor's tomb, with sweeping harbour and coastline views.
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This guide to Hastings Gardens in Valletta follows Francis Rawdon-Hastings, the soldier and former Governor-General of India who came to govern Malta in eighteen twenty-four, and his wife Flora, Countess of Loudoun. It begins with the instructions he left her and the late-autumn voyage off Naples in eighteen twenty-six. Along the way you'll hear why a grave in a garden was a novelty on Malta. Best heard standing beside the canopied tomb on Saint Michael's Bastion.
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