St. Paul's Cathedral
Baroque cathedral with twin belfries and a great dome, rebuilt after a seventeenth-century earthquake.
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This guide to St. Paul's Cathedral in Mdina, the old hilltop capital a short ride from Valletta, starts on a Sunday afternoon in January sixteen ninety-three, as Malta heads toward its Carnival season and the ground begins to shake. It touches Mount Etna, the Grand Master of the Knights, and the Maltese architect Lorenzo Gafà. Best heard standing in the square, facing the two belfries.
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