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Quiet backstreet in Valletta, Malta.
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From two years ago when I visited Malta to celebrate the new year.
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Just inside the city gates in Valletta, Malta. The area was designed by the Italian architect Renzo Piano and built 2011-2014. In Maltese the name is Bieb il-Belt, which means 'Door to the city'.
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In Valletta, Malta (with Christmas decorations).
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Minutes later it wasn't just a heavy drizzle, but pouring down...
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Where one town end on Malta, the next one begins. In this case we're now in Floriana.
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My husband waiting for me to finish taking photos. He has a lot of patience when it comes to that - thankfully, because it's a recurring theme when we are out and about...
Photo from our trip to Malta and Valletta.
The Christmas decorations might be a little out of season now (it wasn't back then), but it is a suitable shot considering it's his birthday today!
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Christmas decorations in the capital of Malta.
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My husband and me in front of the Mdina Glass Christmas Tree in Valletta, Malta.
The Christmas tree, for those of you interested in numbers, is a 7 metre tall Christmas tree made of over 2,000 glass baubles, ranging in size from 5 to 33 cm in diameter. Putting the tree together takes 8 people 2 days!
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A town great for your leg muscles!
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Over Valletta - with some Christmas decorations.
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New Year's eve (an hour or so after the clock struck 12) in Valletta, Malta.
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Interior from the Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta (officially known as The Palace), which once housed the Grandmaster of the Order of St. John, and now is the home for the Maltese President (well, not literally, the official residence for the president is outside of Valletta).
The construction of the palace begun in 1574, but the place saw substantial renovation work when Manuel Pinto da Fonseca became Gransmaster in 1741 - and the current look of the palace owes much to him.
(Taken through a door I wasn't actually allowed through. But I could at least look!)
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And no, I wasn't actually IN the swimming pool when taking this shot.
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Back at the time when she was adorned with Christmas decorations.
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On the backstreets of Valletta, Malta.
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On a rainy night in Valletta, Malta - just outside the Grandmaster's palace.
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The last shot from Valletta, and Malta, I will post to Flickr from this trip we took back at the New Year of 2018. Time sure does fly...
The Mdina Glass Christmas Tree and the Renzo Piano designed Parliament building (from 2014) in Valletta, Malta.
This Neo-Classical building dates to 1786-1796 - but inaugurated in 1812, the delay caused by Napoleon and his invasion of Malta.
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Not sure why anybody would want to drive here, but people do. Obviously.
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Whatever the flag might lead you to believe, this is a shot in the Maltese capital of Valletta.
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Don't fight the elements - work with them.
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Valletta is a town surrounded by big defensive walls - and there is a walkway inside of them, too. Actually it wasn't as spooky as this shot could make you believe, because there were quite a lot of people taking this way.
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This is the ceiling in the Baroque cathedral St John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta, Malta. The church was first built 1573-78, after a design by Girolamo Cassar, born in Malta, but got its current looks in the century after. It was the main church of worship for the knights of St John (who dominated the island in the 17th and 18th centuries).
If you are wondering what a co-cathedral is, that is what you get when you are in a diocese that already has a cathedral (in Mdina), but thinks another church is just as a grand and important (if not more so). So the bishop can use it as an alternative cathedral. This solution dates to 1820s, when the knights had left. Initially the cathedral was called Chiesa Conventuale di San Giovanni Battista (yes, it had an Italian name - in English that is Conventual Church of St. John)
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Eye-catching light (and music) show in Valletta, Malta.
Urban architecture à La Valette-du-Var en fin de journée dans le quartier de l’entrevert.
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For our last night on Malta we arrived in the capital Valletta. From the terrace of our hotel the view was stunning on the three cities and the Grand Harbour. In the evening when the heat of the day melt away with the south wind the magic happens during those unforgettable moments.
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Eye-catching light (and music) show in Valletta, Malta.
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Shot awarded the first jury prize at the Gond-Pontouvre exhibition (12 April 2019 - France).
Shot awarded a prize at the Villebois-Lavalette exhibition (14 April 2019 - France).
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To be a bit formal, this is the Auberge de Provence for the knights of St John in Malta, who belonged to the langue of Provence. Auberge is what the headquarters were called, and langues was the administrative division of the knights (from the French sphere there were Provence, France and Auvergne ).
The Auberge de Provence is now the National Museum of Archaeology. It was originally built in the first half of the 1570s, but little of this remains to be seen, it had extensive renovations in the 17th century - and that is what you can see today. The auberge was also extremely lucky during the Second World War bombings, surrounding houses were hit, but not the auberge itself.
This is the Grand Salon, back in the day used both for business meetings and dining. When I visited the place in December 2017, the wall paintings were getting a much needed renovation (the scaffolding was just outside the picture to the left).
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Not the greenest of country, Malta - but there are some green spots to be found. This was the back garden at our hotel.
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Making things look less steep in Valletta, Malta. With the church Our Lady of Mount Carmel in the background.
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I don't know about you, but I think I'd prefer parking in a somewhat less... steep environment.
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This church (which has also been known as Saint Anthony the Abbot Church) was the first building to be founded in Valletta (back in 1566). The church has undergone quite a few changes since then and is now a grand little Baroque church (newly restored).
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Interior with a ceiling view, at the Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta (officially known as The Palace), which once housed the Grandmaster of the Order of St. John, and now is the home for the Maltese President (well, not literally, the official residence for the president is outside of Valletta). The red flags with the white cross (which you will see quite a lot of in Malta) are NOT the Danish flag, but the flag of the Order of St. John.
The construction of the palace begun in 1574, but the place saw substantial renovation work when Manuel Pinto da Fonseca became Gransmaster in 1741 - and the current look of the palace owes much to him.
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Interior from the Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta (officially known as The Palace), which once housed the Grandmaster of the Order of St. John, and now is the home for the Maltese President (well, not literally, the official residence for the president is outside of Valletta).
The construction of the palace begun in 1574, but the place saw substantial renovation work when Manuel Pinto da Fonseca became Gransmaster in 1741 - and the current look of the palace owes much to him.