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Balluta Buildings is an Art Nouveau apartment block overlooking Balluta Bay in St Julian's, Malta. It was built in 1928 for the Marquis John Scicluna, and it was constructed to designs of Giuseppe Psaila. The building is considered to be among the finest of the few surviving examples of Art Nouveau architecture in Malta.
Gwardamanġa (English: Guardamangia or sometimes incorrectly written as Gwarda Mangia) [1] is a hamlet in Pietà, Malta. [2] Gwardamanġa is the home of St. Luke's Hospital, Malta's former general public hospital, and Villa Guardamangia, the former home of Queen Elizabeth II. It is also the location of the Rediffusion House.
Attard Industrial Estate - code: ATD 3000; Ħal Warda (Rose Village) - code: from ATD 1404 - ATD 1409; Misraħ Kola (Nicholas Square); Robbu tal-Ħemsija - code: ATD 4890; Sant'Anton (Saint Anthony) - code: ATD 1290
Villa Guardamangia (Italian – 'look' and 'eat'), formerly known as Casa Medina [1] [2] and sometimes referred to as Casa Guardamangia, [3] is a 16,791 square feet (1,559.9 m 2) townhouse in Gwardamanġa, Pietà, Malta, which served as the residence of Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh (later Queen Elizabeth II), and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, between 1949 and 1951, while Philip ...
A girna near the Sopu Tower in the limits of Nadur, Gozo [1]. A girna (plural giren) is a type of traditional corbelled hut found in rural areas in parts of Malta. [2] They bear similarities with a number of dry stone vernacular building types found in other Mediterranean countries, and they are primarily used for storage or as temporary shelters.
Sliema is considered a desirable place to live and is relatively affluent, with extremely high property prices compared to the national average. Historically, stylish villas and traditional Maltese townhouses lined the streets of Sliema. Sliema has now been ringed with modern apartment blocks, some of which are amongst the tallest buildings in ...
The Pietà creek in 1856-1859 Pietà waterfront by Richard Ellis (1842-1924). Pietà is the suburb next-closest to the capital after Floriana.. Malta's former national hospital, St. Luke's, is located in Tal-Pietà, and an old boathouse of notable historic interest, now in use as a restaurant, is located on the waterfront.
The town is located on Malta's east coast, north of Valletta and the neighbouing town of Sliema. It is subdivided into informal districts which are Paceville , Ta' Ġiorni , Tal-Għoqod and St Andrew's , as well as the regions surrounding St George's Bay, Spinola Bay, Balluta Bay , and Il-Qaliet cliffs.