Vilhena Palace

Vilhena Palace, also known as the Magisterial Palace and Palazzo Pretorio, is a French Baroque palace in , . It is named after António Manoel de Vilhena, the Grand Master who commissioned it.
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  • Type: Building
  • Description: French Baroque palace in Mdina, Malta
  • Also known as: “Palazzo Vilhena”
  • Address: L-Imdina, MDN 1011

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Museum of Natural History and Mdina Gate.

Museum
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The is a natural history museum in the mediaeval walled city of , Malta. It is housed in Palazzo Vilhena, a French Baroque palace rebuilt in 1726 by Grand Master Antonio Manoel de Vilhena to designs of Charles François de Mondion.

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as the Main Gate or the Vilhena Gate, is the main into the fortified city of , . It was built in the Baroque style in 1724 to designs of Charles François de Mondion, during the magistracy of Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena.

Church
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The Metropolitan Cathedral of Saint Paul, commonly known as St Paul's Cathedral or the Mdina Cathedral, is a Catholic cathedral in , , dedicated to St. is situated 170 metres north of Vilhena Palace.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Mdina and Imtarfa.

Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a small city in and its former capital. The town is a joy to stroll around in: many of the alleys really give the sense that nothing has changed here for more than a millennium since the Arabs were here.

Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mtarfa is a small town in the of , with a population of 2,572 as of March 2014. It was considered to be a suburb of until 2000, when it became a separate local council.

Hamlet
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Ta' Qali is a wide open space in the limits of and in central and northern respectively, which contains , the Malta Fairs & Conventions Centre, Ta' Qali National Park, a crafts village, and a national vegetable market which is locally known as the Pitkalija.

Vilhena Palace

Latitude
35.88488° or 35° 53′ 6″ north
Longitude
14.40376° or 14° 24′ 14″ east
Levels
3
Open location code
8F7PVCM3+XG
Open­Street­Map ID
way 351063299
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­yes
Wiki­data ID
Q21591405
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In Other Languages

From French to Uzbek—“Vilhena Palace” goes by many names.
  • French: “palais Vilhena”
  • French: “Palais Vilhena”
  • German: “Palazzo Vilhena”
  • Hungarian: “Palazzo Vilhena”
  • Hungarian: “Vilhena-palota”
  • Italian: “Palazzo Vilhena”
  • Maltese: “Palazz Vilhena”
  • Polish: “Palazzo Vilhena”
  • Ukrainian: “Палац Вільена”
  • Uzbek: “Vilhena saroyi”

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Highlights include Mdina Police Station and The Mdina Dungeons Museum.

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