Knisja tal-Vittorja
Small Baroque church raised as the first building of a new fortress city after the Great Siege.
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This guide to the Church of Our Lady of Victory in Valletta follows Jean Parisot de Valette, Grand Master of the Knights of St John, in the months after the Great Siege of fifteen sixty-five, when a new fortress city was only a plan. It touches the crypt beneath the floor, the painter Alessio Erardi and his vaulted ceiling, and the bombing of nineteen forty-two that struck next door. Stand just inside the doorway, where the painted vault is in full view.
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