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Walk Valletta in 1600

AI rebuilds Valletta street by street, and you walk through it in your browser.

Historic Places, Rebuilt · City walk

Knights' Valletta, 1600

Valletta is the new fortified capital raised by the Order of St John after the Great Siege; in 1600 the grid of streets, auberges and the Grand Harbour defences are still young. The walk follows the peninsula from the harbour approach up into the city's regimented streets, passing bastions, cavaliers, auberges, the conventual church's plain exterior and the palace, and ends on a high bastion overlooking the Order's galleys below.

36 scenes — 24 streets, squares and views, 12 interiors to step inside. Planned from the Wikipedia record of Valletta as it stood in 1600 (“Hospitaller Malta”).

The route, scene by scene

  1. 1. Grand Harbour Approach
  2. 2. View to Fort St. Angelo
  3. 3. Fort St. Elmo
  4. 4. Valletta Marina
  5. ↳ Galley Master's Shed · interior
  6. 5. Sacra Infermeria
  7. ↳ Great Surgical Ward · interior
  8. 6. The Manderaggio
  9. 7. Saluting Battery
  10. 8. Porta Reale (Main Gate)
  11. ↳ Porta Reale Guardroom · interior
  12. 9. St Michael's Bastion
  13. 10. St. John's Cavalier
  14. ↳ St John's Casemates · interior
  15. 11. Strada Reale
  16. 12. Strada Mercanti
  17. ↳ Merchant Exchange Chamber · interior
  18. 13. Pjazza San Giovanni
  19. 14. Conventual Church Exterior
  20. ↳ Conventual Church Nave · interior
  21. 15. Grandmaster's Palace
  22. ↳ Grandmaster's Armoury · interior
  23. ↳ Hall of St Michael · interior
  24. 16. Collachio (Knights' Quarter)
  25. 17. Auberge de Castille
  26. ↳ Castile Refectory · interior
  27. 18. Auberge d'Aragon
  28. 19. Auberge de Provence
  29. ↳ Provence Refectory · interior
  30. 20. Auberge d'Italie
  31. ↳ Italian Refectory · interior
  32. 21. Auberge de France
  33. ↳ France Refectory · interior
  34. 22. Strada Stretta
  35. 23. St. John's Bastion
  36. 24. St. James Cavalier