Mdina Gate
Baroque stone gateway of seventeen twenty-four on a lion-guarded bridge into a walled hilltop city.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Mdina Gate, the walled hilltop city's main entrance outside Valletta, is about the people who did the daily work of guarding it in the late fifteenth century. You'll meet the Jewish community whose duties included a fire and a lamp, and a Castilian settler, Diego de Zavallos, with a petition for the Viceroy. Stand facing the gate, with the tower on your right, to follow the stonework it points out.
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