thePortugueseGrand MasterAntónio Manoel de Vilhena, causing
Floriana to be known by the nicknamesBorgo VilhenaorCitta Vilhena. Floriana was intended
to be a suburb of Valletta but then for various reasons, Grand Master Vilhena
changed his mind and renamed this suburb Floriana, thus developing it as a town
in its own right.
