Grandmaster’s Palace
The Grandmaster's Palace, officially known as The Palace, is a palace in Valletta, Malta. It was built between the 16th and 18th centuries as the palace of the Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller, who ruled Malta from 1530 to 1798, and was also known as the Magisterial Palace.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Museum
- Description: palace
- Also known as: “Grandmaster’s Palace, Valletta” and “The Palace”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include National Library and Saint John’s Co-Cathedral.
National Library
Library
The National Library of Malta, often known as the Bibliotheca, is a reference library in Republic Square, Valletta, Malta. It was founded by Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc in 1776 out of the collections of the knight Louis Guérin de Tencin.
Saint John’s Co-Cathedral
Church
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St John's Co-Cathedral is a Catholic co-cathedral in Valletta, Malta, dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. It was built by the Order of St. John between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the Conventual Church of Saint John. Saint John’s Co-Cathedral is situated 160 metres southwest of Grandmaster’s Palace.
Manoel Theatre
Theater building
Photo: R Muscat, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Teatru Manoel is a theatre and important performing arts venue in Malta. The theatre is often referred to as simply "The Manoel", and is named after Grand Master of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller, Fra António Manoel de Vilhena, who ordered its construction in 1731. Manoel Theatre is situated 160 metres northwest of Grandmaster’s Palace.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Floriana Granaries and Floriana.
Floriana
Town
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Floriana, also known by its title Borgo Vilhena, is a fortified town in the Port Region area of Malta, just outside the capital city Valletta. It has a population of 2,205 as of March 2014.
Senglea
Town
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Senglea, also known by its title Città Invicta, is a fortified city in the Port Region of Malta. It is one of the Three Cities in the Grand Harbour area, the other two being Cospicua and Vittoriosa, and has a population of approximately 2,720 people.
Grandmaster’s Palace
- Categories: palace, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Valletta, Malta Island, Malta, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Grandmaster’s Palace” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “قصر السيد الأكبر”
- Basque: “Maisu Handiaren jauregia (Valletta)”
- Basque: “Maisu Handiaren jauregia”
- Chinese: “大教長宮”
- Chinese: “大教长宫”
- Czech: “Velmistrovský palác”
- Dutch: “Grootmeesterspaleis (Valletta)”
- Dutch: “Grootmeesterspaleis”
- Finnish: “Suurmestarin palatsi (Valletta)”
- Finnish: “Suurmestarin palatsi”
- French: “palais des Grands-Maîtres”
- French: “Palais magistral”
- German: “Grossmeisterpalast”
- German: “Großmeisterpalast”
- Hebrew: “ארמון הגראנד מאסטר”
- Hungarian: “Nagymesteri Palota (Valletta)”
- Hungarian: “Nagymesteri Palota”
- Italian: “Palazzo del Gran Maestro”
- Italian: “Palazzo del Grande Maestro”
- Japanese: “マルタ大統領官邸”
- Japanese: “マルタ騎士団総長館”
- Korean: “발레타 구호기사단 총장궁”
- Macedonian: “Палата на Големиот мајстор”
- Maltese: “Palazz tal-Gran Mastru”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Stormesterens palass”
- Norwegian: “Stormesterens palass”
- Persian: “کاخ استاد اعظم، والتا”
- Polish: “Pałac Wielkiego Mistrza”
- Portuguese: “Palácio do Grão-Mestre”
- Romanian: “Palatul Magistral din Malta”
- Romanian: “Palatul Marelui Maestru”
- Russian: “Дворец Великого магистра”
- Russian: “Дворец гроссмейстеров Мальтийского ордена”
- Slovak: “Veľmajstrov palác”
- Slovenian: “Palača velikega mojstra”
- Spanish: “Palacio del Gran Maestre (La Valeta)”
- Spanish: “Palacio del Gran Maestre”
- Swedish: “Stormästarens palats, Valletta”
- Swedish: “Stormästarens palats”
- Ukrainian: “Палац Великого Магістра”
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