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Fort Rinella - Malta Only Live Museum - Visitors can:  Explore all parts of this intriguing fort including the tunnels and the defensive ditch.                      Fire an original 19th century cannon or a solider's rifle.                      See how the Victorian soldiers lived and even sample one of their hard-tack biscuits washed                      down by a bowl of tea as they would have had it! - Ask at the shop!                      See how the monstrous gun was built and how it worked.                      Explore an ever growing wealth of original memorabilia covering military uniforms, weapons,                      decorations and equipm...

The Saluting Battery in Valletta occupies one of the best vantage points in the capital overlooking the grand Harbour and its environs.  Its origins date back to the time when Valletta itself started being built in 1566 by the Knights of St. John.  Just a year before that, during the Great Siege of Malta, its strategic location was skilfully used by the invading Ottoman army to lay siege to Fort St. Angelo across the harbour. Positioned on the lower tier of St. Peter and st. Paul's Bastion this battery commands the whole of the harbour and a good part of the land that surrounds it .  The Saluting Battery is located at the  right extremity of   Valletta's front as one enters it.  One can reach it by walking past the Auberge de Castille (present day office of the Prime Minister) heading straight into the Upper Barracca Gardens and down the steps at back of the main fountain in the Gardens.  Alternatively one can reach it from  Battery Street ...

Writer Alessandro Manzoni lived here from 1814 to 1873, when he died. The house is also home to the Centro Nazionale di Studi Marzoniani. Casa Del Manzoni Via Morone 1 tel:   02 86460403 Open from Tuesday to Friday 9am till noon, 2pm-4 pm Admission Free - Except public holidays