Manoel Island
Harbour island with a Knights-era star fort, rebuilt baroque chapel and old quarantine hospital.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Manoel Island in Valletta's Marsamxett Harbour stands you at the rebuilt chapel of Saint Anthony of Padua inside Fort Manoel. It follows the Grand Master whose name the island still carries, the French engineer laid in the crypt below, and the work crews who came to clear the bombed ruins after the Second World War. Best heard in the fort's piazza, facing the chapel door.
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