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Answer : VALLETTA
Valletta, also spelled Valetta, seaport and capital of Malta, on the northeast coast of the island of Malta. The nucleus of the city is built on the promontory of Mount Sceberras that runs like a tongue into the middle of a bay, which it thus divides into two harbours, Grand Harbour to the east and Marsamxett Harbour to the west.
Built after the Great Siege of Malta in 1565, which checked the advance of Ottoman power in southern Europe, it was named for Jean Parisot de la Valette, grand master of the order of Hospitallers (Knights of St. John of Jerusalem), and became Malta’s capital in 1570. The Hospitallers were driven out by the French in 1798, and a Maltese revolt against the French garrison led to Valletta’s seizure by the British in 1800. After 1814 the city became a strategic British Mediterranean naval and military base of the first order; it was subjected to severe bombing raids in World War II and was the place where the Italian fleet surrendered to the Allies in 1943.
One of the most-notable buildings in Valletta is St. John’s Co-Cathedral. Formerly a conventual church belonging to the Hospitaller order, this church is outwardly austere but inwardly sumptuous and is now almost equal in rank to the archbishop’s cathedral at Mdina. Built between 1573 and 1578, it was designed by the Maltese architect Gerolamo Cassar.
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- CLEARANCE Permission for demolition
- CONDEMNED Like a building slated for demolition
- DETONATOR Device used for demolition
- IMPLOSION Controlled demolition in which a structure collapses on itself, building …
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