Lower Barrakka
Quiet bastion garden around a Greek-style temple monument, overlooking the harbour entrance.
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This guide to the Lower Barrakka Gardens in Valletta stands you in front of the small stone temple raised for Sir Alexander Ball, Malta's first British Civil Commissioner, and asks a plain question: who paid for it, and with what? It follows the Latin lines on the frieze and base, the committee that called itself the Deputies of the Nation, and the merchant harbour below that was crowded with ships while Napoleon blockaded Europe. Best heard standing at the temple's steps, with the Grand Harbour behind you.
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