One of the guns are fired every day at 12 noon and 4pm. On the day this picture was taken (10th February) there was a public holiday (The Feast of St Paul's Shipwreck) and all 8 of the cannons were fired in turn.
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One of the guns are fired every day at 12 noon and 4pm. On the day this picture was taken (10th February) there was a public holiday (The Feast of St Paul's Shipwreck) and all 8 of the cannons were fired in turn.
One of the guns are fired every day at 12 noon and 4pm. On the day this picture was taken (10th February) there was a public holiday (The Feast of St Paul's Shipwreck) and all 8 of the cannons were fired in turn.
This is the Siege Bell War Memorial in Valletta the Capital of Malta which commemorates the siege of 1940-1943, the image was taken from the Lower Barracca Gardens.
Valletta, Malta - 25 May 2015: picturesque view on Lower Barrakka Gardens in Valletta in Malta
picturesque view on Lower Barrakka Gardens in Valletta in Malta
side terrace in Upper Barrakka Gardens in Valletta in Malta
Garden Barracca: uno scorcio della veduta della capitale La Valletta a Malta
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- means 'blessed' or something similar in Hebrew and Arabic (of which Maltese is a 'first cousin'). And this is a blessed place - one of very few green oases on the hot rocky island. Not sure if it has anything to do with the other meaning (albeit from the same root) - a soldiers' camp? (Malta was always a military base, from the Middle Ages to WW2). I'd rather have the 'blessed' or 'blissful' version - but any Maltese historians (or serious linguists), please correct me! And add what I don't know about the origins of the Upper and Lower Barrakka gardens.
