Palazzo Falson
Medieval townhouse turned house museum, filled with a shipping heir's forty-plus collections.
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This guide to Palazzo Falson in Mdina, near Valletta, is about work rather than grandeur: the painter and pipe smoker who was the house's last resident, and the Swedish seafaring family whose trade paid for his rooms. It follows a sailing ship called the Swalan and the cargoes she carried around the Mediterranean in the eighteen hundreds. Along the way you'll hear about a bohemian artists' brotherhood in Rome and a kitchen that was not quite what it seems. Best heard in the courtyard, before you climb to the studio.
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