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Our Saviour’s Gate or Capuchins Gate |
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This gate built during the time of Grand Master Perellos (1715–22) took its name from the adjacent Fort built in 1724 to provide cover from any artillery attacks from Salvatore Hill.
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St Louis Gate |
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This gate between Fort Salvatore and St Louis Bastion, bearing a magnificent coat of arms is now blocked with a stone wall.
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St James Gate |
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This Gate between St Louis and St James Bastions, is now blocked with a stone wall.
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Notre Dame de La Grace Gate or Cotoner Gate and Bieb is-Sultan |
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Named after the Patron Saint of Zabbar, built in 1675 with three openings, a drawbridge and guardrooms located at ground level it was intended to provide a controlled passage into the fortifications. It is the only gate of the Cottonera lines with an outer work designed by Tigne and his French engineers in 1715 to give a bold classical artistic expression, and to form a massive solid tenaille high enough to shield the entrance to the gate which survived up to the early 20th century.
During the 18th century it does not seem to have had any permanent Corpo di Guardia, but it must have served as an important outlook post during the French occupation. The Gate bears graffiti which vary from marine craft to religious subjects covering the period from the French blockade to World War I.
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St Nicholas’ Gate or Polverista Gate |
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This gate leads from Cospicua to Fgura, hence providing another entrance to Cottonera.
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St John’s Gate |
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A massive beautiful high gate between St Paul’s and St John’s Bastion, permanently Blocked during the French occupation. A tunnel runs through the whole length of St. John’s curtain.
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St Paul’s Gate |
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This Gate was dismantled during the expansion of the Naval Dockyard in the beginning of the 20th Century.
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