The Malta Experience
Panoramic audio-visual show on the island's history, beside the Knights' former great hospital.
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This guide to The Malta Experience in Valletta looks next door, at the Knights of Saint John's great hospital and a capacity figure that never quite agrees with itself. It follows the stone, timber and private latrines of the Long Ward, one of the largest halls in Europe in its day, and a March morning in nineteen eighty-seven when the old hospital, now a conference centre, was being readied for a car company's laser show. Best heard outside on the St Elmo Bastions, with the hospital walls in view.
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