Posted on 03/01/2009 6:37:10 PM PST by SunkenCiv
Preliminary archaeological studies in St George's Square, Valletta have uncovered an undocumented network of underground passageways, which could possibly connect to the Palace... The passageways were discovered on Tuesday when government employees from the Works Division under architect Claude Borg dug through a wall in a small room on Archbishop Street. After clearing debris and other material, they discovered that the passageway leads to under the Main Guard portico, parallel to the Palace... Further excavation works revealed that the central passageway had a number of corridors that led to other directions. One such corridor, at right angles with the central passageway and which seems to be blocked, runs in the direction of the Palace. Mr Borg, executive co-ordinator of the Valletta Rehabilitation Project, said that archival research and previous studies of the site did not reveal the existence of the underground passageways... It seems that the passageways used to form part of a drainage system built by the Knights of the Order of St John... The Knights had built the Wignacourt fountain in the square to celebrate the arrival of fresh water to Valletta.
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I’m a little jealous, I haven’t even had Malta meal in long time.
No I did not see this thread LJ thanks for giving me the heads up. I am having trouble with my ISP at the moment and am posting from a bar now.
You know I have a place next door to Fort St Angelo in Grand Harbour, Valetta, our underground garage has some similarities to that.
As opposed to the Knights of Chocolate Malta that dug tunnels to store Hersheys syrup.
From your photos I remember you have a place there and might be familiar with the tunnels. Malta’s an interesting place.
“What’s the deal with Ovaltine? The cup is round. The jar is round. It should be called Roundtine.”
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