Republic Street
Pedestrian main street running from the city gate past palaces, squares and an open-air theatre ruin.
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This guide to Republic Street in Valletta stays near the top of the city's main street, with the opera house that Edward Middleton Barry, architect of London's Covent Garden, designed for it in the eighteen sixties. It follows the building through fire, war and decades of plans, from German prisoners of war to Renzo Piano. Best heard facing uphill toward City Gate.
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