The Valletta Waterfront
Row of colourful-doored Baroque harbour warehouses, now a cruise quay of restaurants and bars.
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This guide to the Valletta Waterfront in Malta begins on a summer evening in seventeen fifty-two, when Grand Master Manuel Pinto da Fonseca threw open a new row of harbour stores designed by Andrea Belli, and the Grand Harbour filled with torchlight and music. It follows the quay from Baroque warehouse to wartime ruin to today's bars, restaurants and cruise berths. Stand facing the central portal of the stores, where you can see both the doors and the figure above them.
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