Valletta, Malta
Kitchen and lounge: limestone walls, timber beams, a white sofa and a large abstract painting
Kitchen and lounge
50

Archbishop Street
Flat 1Triq l-Arċisqof, il-Belt Valletta

Our place in Valletta. First floor of an old limestone townhouse. Fifty steps from St John's.

Stone walls, timber beams, old tile floors. Our furniture, our art on the walls. Quiet, for Valletta.

Floor
First
Rooms
Bedroom, sitting room, kitchen and lounge, bathroom, utility room
Walls
Limestone
Ceilings
Timber beams
Floors
Terrazzo and marble
Bedroom
Venetian glass chandelier
St John's
50 paces
Bedroom with dark walls, a chandelier and a leather lounge chair
Bedroom
Black timber doors open onto a sitting room with paintings
Through the doors
Bedroom seen from the doorway, under timber beams and a chandelier
Bedroom, from the door
Lounge with a mirror, plants and a patterned sideboard
Lounge
Bathroom with dark green tiles, a round mirror and a bath
Bathroom
Lounge in the evening with sofa, painting and beams
Lounge, evening
Limestone light well with a small table, plants and a lit window
Courtyard, at dusk

On foot

  1. 50 pacesSt John's Co-CathedralPlain outside, gold inside. Caravaggio's Beheading of St John, the only painting he signed.
  2. 1 minRepublic StreetMain street. City Gate to Fort St Elmo.
  3. 2 minGrand Master's PalaceArmoury, tapestries.
  4. 3 minCasa Rocca Piccola16th-century palazzo. The de Piro family still lives there.
  5. 4 minTeatru ManoelOpened 1732. Still running.
  6. 5 minMUŻANational art museum, in the old Auberge d'Italie.
  7. 6 minUpper Barrakka GardensOver the Grand Harbour. Cannon at noon and four.
  8. 7 minFast ferry to GozoTo the other house.
  9. Next doorSailors ParadiseThe local bar.