FORTIFICATIONS - SANTA MARGERITA LINES FROM EAST (TRIQ IL-GUBLEW TAL-FIDDA) TO WEST (TRIQ IL-MADONNA TAL- GRAZZJA) - BASTIONS, CURTAINS AND GATES
1. Mezzaluna - Outworks and Glaciers
2. St Margaret’s Bastions - Lines
3. Firenzuola Bastions
4. Cittadinella Verdala
5. Gate of St Clement or Verdala’s Main (Back) Gate
The Gate of St Clement was built in 1658 within the St Clement’s Bastion in the Margerita Lines. It was closed to the public once the British built Verdala Barracks linked to the Gate.
6. Gate of Firenzuola or Verdala’s British (Front) Gate
7. St Helen’s Bastion
Gate of St Helen
The Main Gate of the Sta. Margherita Lines is an architectural treasure built in the eighteenth Century and consisting of three gateways leading to the centre of Cospicua. An inscription above the gate records its history until it was finished in 1726.
Due to pollution and weathering of time throughout the years the gate has suffered heave damages. It is now undergoing extensive restoration works which have revealed underlying archeological remains.
8. St John’s the Almoner Bastion
9. St Feraucin Bastion
10. Ravelin
