I was referring to De Vallette, Laparelli and Cassar and not to the labourers who physically built Sciberras peninsula.

[Daphne – Mount Sceberras, without an i. The individuals you name did not build Valletta. Two of them planned, engineered and designed it, and the first commissioned it. De Valette did not build Valletta. He had it built. English words/verbs/tenses have very specific meanings, unlike Maltese in which one word often has to serve multiple purposes. The people who built it were the builders. Sorry to be a bore about this, but I kind of get irritated at the number of people who tell me things like ‘I built a wall in the garden’ and I think wow, that’s clever, only to realise that what they mean is that they had one built.]

Perhaps the next ‘great’ thing would be to remove all the pieces of wood and stone exhibited inside the Archaeological Museum, a short walk further down, and replace them bil-gwarnici tal-perit u tal-mexxej tal-moviment bix-xema tixghel quddiemhom.

Just when one thinks that he has seen the extent of this government’s incompetence at decision making, Muscat manages to sink even lower.

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20150203/local/Hawkers-We-will-hide-a-blasphemous-ugliness-.554539

Mies is Mies van der Rohe. But what’s Miss Vindaloo?

You still need skilled workmen to build a city or anything else of quality that has planning.

Master stone masons and skilled stone carvers and even skilled carpenters were not usually slaves, even in the 16th and 17th centuries.

[Daphne – You know very well that’s not what I meant.]

Prosit Daphne!!

Isn’t there a branch of history which explains how Maltese were non-citizens compared to the Knights and we were treated as if they were an occupying force?

But people would rather forget that and think it was all lovey dovey under the Knights of St John.