Parish Church of St Lawrence
Baroque waterfront church, once the Knights' first conventual church, with a Preti altarpiece.
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This guide to the Parish Church of St Lawrence in Birgu, across the harbour from Valletta, goes back to the years when the Knights of St John made this waterfront church their first home on Malta, and to the treasures they carried from Rhodes. It follows an old tempera panel of the saint and the question of where it really came from. Along the way you will meet the Maltese historian Mario Buhagiar and a team of restorers at work in nineteen thirty-seven. Best heard facing the high altar.
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