Worth a Detour
Casa Rocca Piccola
A 16th-century noble palace still lived in by its family, with wartime air-raid shelters cut into the rock beneath.
- Open
- Closed Sundays
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- 74 Republic Street, VallettaDirections
- Getting There
- On Republic Street, near Fort St. Elmo.
Why Go
The de Piro family show visitors through rooms of furniture, silver, paintings and costumes gathered over 400 years, a rare look inside a private Maltese home. Below, the shelters where families sheltered from the bombing of 1940–1942 are open on the tour.
Nearby in Valletta
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