Saluting Battery in Valletta, Malta - Encircle Photos

Saluting Battery in Valletta, Malta

This Saluting Battery points towards the Grand Harbour. It was called the Porto delle Galere when the Knights Hospitaller ruled Malta starting in 1565. The year before the Ottomans located cannons here so they could bombard Fort St. Angelo in the center. That fortress was a castle called Castrum Maris during medieval times. When the Turks were defeated in 1566, the Saints Peter and Paul’s Bastion was built. This vantage point from the Upper Barrakka Gardens gives you the best view of the guns when they are fired at noon and 4:00 every day. From here you can also see Fort Ricasoli on the distant left.

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Saluting Battery in Valletta, Malta

Upper Barrakka Gardens Triq Sant' Orsla, Valletta, Malta

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