Grand Master's Palace
Baroque seat of the Knights of St John, hung with a complete set of Gobelins tapestries of Brazil.
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This guide to the Grand Master's Palace in Valletta follows a set of tapestries back to Dutch Brazil, to a governor with a passion for natural history and the two painters he took with him. It then turns to Ramon Perellos y Roccaful, the Spanish Grand Master who ordered them from Paris in seventeen-oh-eight as his gift to the Order of Saint John. Best heard standing in the Tapestry Chamber, facing the walls.
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