Scheduling the past

Mepa schedules Palazzo Parisio, Naxxar

This palace was built in 1733 by Grand Master Antonio Manuel de Vilhena and was later used as a stately home by the noble family Scicluna.

The palace has a varied history since it housed different uses. It originally started out as a summer residence and was later used as a barracks by the French Napoleonic troops during their sojourn in Malta, later still as a Jesuit noviciate and college and subsequently used as the stately home of Marquis Giuseppe Scicluna, whose family still owns the palace.

The palace was decorated by Italian decorators and is cited as being "unique in Malta for its sheer opulence".

The palace also contains extensive gardens, parts of which have been re-developed as the Trade Fair Grounds. An elevated walkway leads through an ornate Baroque gate to a belvedere that is over 170 metres away.

The belvedere was demolished to make space for pavilions of the Trade Fair grounds.