Art sights in Valletta
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St John’s Co-Cathedral
Malta’s most impressive church, St John’s Co-Cathedral was designed by the architect Gerolamo Cassar. It was built between 1573 and 1578 as the conventual church of the Knights of St John. It took over from the Church of St Lawrence in Vittoriosa as the place where the Knights would gather for communal worship. It was raised to a status equal to that of St Paul’s Cathedral in Mdina – the official seat of the Archbishop of Malta – by a papal decree of 1816, hence the term ‘co-cathedral’.
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