Mosta Rotunda
Pantheon-style parish church with a vast unsupported dome, raised by volunteer villagers.
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This guide to the Mosta Rotunda, a short ride from Valletta, follows one Maltese town from the eighteen thirties to every August now. It turns on the parishioners who gave their Sundays and public holidays to raising the dome, an architect with no formal training, and the old village church that kept holding Mass inside the building site. It also crosses the square to the feast of the Assumption, with its band clubs and two fireworks groups. Stand facing the dome with Rotunda Square at your back.
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