Casa Rocca Piccola reveals Valletta’s private aristocratic layer, less visible from the city’s fortifications.
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The Grandmaster's Palace in Valletta was the seat of the Order's rulers, then British governors, now Malta's president. The armoury holds 5,000 exhibits including knights' ceremonial armour.
Heart of Valletta: a six-fingered Queen Victoria statue and Caffe Cordina (1837) — Malta's oldest café. Coffee, pastizzi, and the island's social salon.
St. John's Co-Cathedral is a Baroque masterpiece where each of 8 chapels belonged to a different "tongue" of the Order. 374 knight tombstones on the floor. Two Caravaggio paintings including "The Beheading of St. John" — his only signed work.