Knisja ta’ Santa Katerina tal-Italja
Baroque church of the Italian knights, with a Mattia Preti altarpiece and painted dome.
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This guide to the Church of St Catherine of Italy in Valletta follows Mattia Preti, a Calabrian Baroque painter, in the summer of sixteen fifty-nine, when he arrived with a gift for the Italian knights next door. It touches the Langue of Italy, the auberge that is now the MUŻA museum, and a twenty twenty-five promise about the church's future. Stand facing the main altar, where you can see both the altarpiece and the painted dome above it.
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