font-family:"Cambria","serif";mso-bidi-font-family:Arial">1681 commissioned the
Knights
Lorenzo Gafa
who had already delivered the plans
for a number of churches in Malta, with the construction of the St. Lawrence
Church, which was completed in the 1697th
1798
Malta had the French revolutionary troops under
Napoleon
soft.
But already in 1800 were
French
of the
British
expelled from Malta took possession.
They extended the harbor Vittoriosas for
their purposes, and built it into a major shipyard site
from.
This was the city in the
Second World War
's undoing, as the plants produce
frequent bombings
were the Italian
and German air forces.
Apart from
the
industrial plants
and large parts of the neighborhood
were destroyed.
1979 in Vittoriosa
the last British soldier was adopted.
