I paid a visit to the Lascaris War Rooms the other day, buried deep (well, 200 feet) below the rock in Valletta. And well worth a visit it is too, once you have followed a large number of signs down…
Category: History
This is a continuation of a very compressed history of Malta. Here’s part one.Now where were we? Okay, in 1530, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V decided to give the islands to the Knights of Malta, and all he asked was…
There is a lot of history to get through for such a small island, so I am going to attempt to condense it just a little bit. Let’s go right back to when early Sicilians floated over in search of…