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Lower Barrakka Gardens

The Lower Barrakka Gardens are a public garden in , , twinned with the in the same city. The gardens have a view of the and the breakwater.
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  • Type: Park
  • Description: park in Valletta, Malta
  • Also known as: “Lower Barracca Gardens”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Monument to Sir Alexander Ball and Mediterranean Conference Centre.

Photo: Björn S., CC BY-SA 3.0.
The is a neoclassical monument in the Lower Barrakka Gardens in , . It was built in 1810 as a memorial to Sir Alexander Ball, a British admiral who was the first Civil Commissioner of Malta.

Convention center
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The is a conference centre in , . The building was built as a in the 16th century by the Order of St.

Library
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The of Malta, often known as the Bibliotheca, is a reference library in , , Malta. It was founded by Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc in 1776 out of the collections of the knight Louis Guérin de Tencin.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Valletta and Floriana Granaries.

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or Il-Belt is the capital of . Historically built as harbour city to first capital, preserves much of its 16th-century architectural heritage built under the Hospitallers.

Locality
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is a locality.

Town
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, also known by its title Città Invicta, is a fortified city in the Port Region of . It is one of the in the area, the other two being and Vittoriosa, and has a population of approximately 2,720 people.

Lower Barrakka Gardens

Latitude
35.89755° or 35° 53′ 51″ north
Longitude
14.51758° or 14° 31′ 3″ east
Elevation
31 metres (102 feet)
Open location code
8F7PVGX9+22
Open­Street­Map ID
way 27462446
Open­Street­Map feature
leisure=­park
Geo­Names ID
8015438
Wiki­data ID
Q1297377
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Swedish—“Lower Barrakka Gardens” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “حدائق باراكا السفلى”
  • Cebuano: “Lower Barracca Gardens”
  • French: “Jardins Lower Barrakka”
  • German: “Lower Barrakka Gardens”
  • Italian: “Lower Barrakka Gardens”
  • Maltese: “Barrakka t’Isfel”
  • Polish: “Dolne ogrody Barrakka”
  • Swedish: “Lower Barracca Gardens”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Lower Barrakka Gardens”. Photo: Karelj, CC BY-SA 3.0.