The Lascaris War Rooms
Secret wartime tunnel headquarters with restored operations rooms, plotting maps and radar galleries.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Lascaris War Rooms in Valletta goes underground beneath the Upper Barrakka Gardens, into tunnels the Knights of St John once used as slave quarters and the British began reshaping in nineteen forty, with Malta under siege. It asks how deep a wartime secret really goes, and who the thousand people working down here actually were. Stand on the lower floor of the main operations room and look up at the galleries.
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