Our day’s explorations of the island took us to the Three Cities east of Valletta – Senglea, Vittoriosa and Conspicua, which are similar to Mdina in that they are all quite old-fashioned and quiet. We visited the Inquisitor’s Palace in Vittoriosa, the Maritime museum in Vittoriosa and then went for a guided tour of Fort Rinella, a coastal battery built in the 1880s, led by tour guides dressed in Victorian army uniform who treated us to a display of gun-firing, sword fighting and different types of signalling and showed us the 100-ton Armstrong gun that was part of the coastal defences.
Thursday, 12 November 2009
Malta - day 5: The Three Cities
Our day’s explorations of the island took us to the Three Cities east of Valletta – Senglea, Vittoriosa and Conspicua, which are similar to Mdina in that they are all quite old-fashioned and quiet. We visited the Inquisitor’s Palace in Vittoriosa, the Maritime museum in Vittoriosa and then went for a guided tour of Fort Rinella, a coastal battery built in the 1880s, led by tour guides dressed in Victorian army uniform who treated us to a display of gun-firing, sword fighting and different types of signalling and showed us the 100-ton Armstrong gun that was part of the coastal defences.
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