Mysterium Fidei Museum St Catherine's Monastery and Secret Garden
Underground quarry rooms, crypt and garden beneath a cloistered nuns' monastery, open since 2023.
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This audio guide to the Mysterium Fidei Museum beneath St Catherine's Monastery in Valletta starts with founding dates that refuse to agree. It follows the Vasco Oliviero family, who gave up their palace, and the Roman architect Romano Carapecchia, who rebuilt the church and monastery in the eighteenth century. Best heard standing among the vaulted rooms cut from the rock below the cloister.
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