Filthy façades in Valletta
If you go around the streets of Valletta, you will notice the state of abandonment many façades of the buildings are in, especially the privately owned ones. Many of the balconies are without paint and some are even without glass panes. This is not the...
If you go around the streets of Valletta, you will notice the state of abandonment many façades of the buildings are in, especially the privately owned ones. Many of the balconies are without paint and some are even without glass panes. This is not the way to keep the city built by gentlemen for gentlemen.
I still remember when I was in touch with our Tunisian house at the Sacre Coeur, Bab-el Khadra, Tunis, 50 years ago, the Municipality issued a circular letter, requesting the annual restoration of the buildings' façades (white-washing and painting the apertures).
The circular stated the colour to be used: white washing, and the paint had to be either Turkish blue (light blue) or light grey.
No other colours could be used.
It also stated that if the work was not done within a certain time, a bill would be sent and would have to be paid immediately.
In Malta many façades are in a state of neglect.
Valletta is a Tourist zone: While tourists are admiring the beautiful sculptured corbels of the balconies in the centre of the newly-paved Merchants Street, if they look elsewhere they will see the badly-kept façades and balconies. Shame !