Casa Rocca Piccola Museum, Valletta, Malta

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The palace of Casa Rocca Piccola was originally built in 1580 for Don Pietro La Rocca (a Knight of Malta) and is now the family home of the 9th Marquis de Piro and his family. We took a tour of the home and enjoyed learning a bit about it’s history. We also explored the network of underground passages and tunnels that have been cut out of the rock underneath the palace over the course of its 400-year history, including a particular tunnel that takes you into a huge cavern that was used during WW2 to shelter over 100 people from the heavy bombing. We learned that Malta was one of the most intensively bombed areas during the war. In fact, there is an air raid siren daily at 12:00 in remembrance of the fallen of both world wars.

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