Wirt Ghawdex warnings on Xlendi tower

Wirt Ghawdex, the Gozo-based heritage NGO, has ex-pressed concern about the state of some monuments of great importance for Gozo.

The St Cecilia medieval chapel in Ghajnsielem, the Knights' tower in Xlendi Bay and the votive plinth recently removed from Archbishop Pietro Pace Street in Victoria are three monuments to which the society has been drawing the attention of Government and of all the ministries, departments and agencies, to no avail.

Wirt Ghawdex has expressed its concern that despite the Cultural Heritage Act placing the responsibility for the proper protection of such monuments on specific entities, nothing has been done about these three monuments. Letters sent to these entities over the last three years have gone unheeded.

The organisation warned that both the chapel and the tower are in imminent danger of collapse and that works being carried out near the chapel may be causing further structural damage to the already fragile building.