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Wignacourt Tower

Wignacourt Tower

Museums · St. Paul's Bay

A bastioned stone watchtower whose foundation stone was laid in 1610 - the first of six towers built by Grand Master Alof de Wignacourt, with an artillery battery added in 1715. Today the tower is a small museum of Maltese fortifications, right on the shore of the bay.

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