Worth a Detour
Lascaris War Rooms
The secret tunnels under the city walls where the defense of Malta and the invasion of Sicily were run.
- Open
- Every day
- Price
- Paid
- Time Needed
- 1 hour
- Address
- Lascaris Ditch, VallettaDirections
- Getting There
- Below the Upper Barrakka Gardens, along the ditch from the City Gate.
Why Go
Dug into the rock below the Upper Barrakka Gardens, the war rooms were Britain's command center for the air and sea war around Malta. In 1943 Eisenhower and his commanders followed the invasion of Sicily from here, and the rooms kept working as a NATO center into the 1970s.
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