Monday, 6th July 2009

The Valletta plans (4)

OFMConv Fr Edmund Teuma, Valletta

I think this is the right time to ask Renzo Piano to insert the bust of our great benefactor St Pius V in his plans for City Gate. The saint's bust had been provisionally placed in a corner of Great Siege Square some years ago by the Valletta council but it belongs to City Gate where it had always been in the past.

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Comments

monica muscat (on 6/7/09)

Fr. Theuma, I do not think that the present sight for Pius V is the right place. But incorporating it into the Renzo Piano project would be a mistake. It just does not fit. Anyway, Pius V will not be more of a Saint if placed at City Gate. I think a more congenial site should be found, both from the present one and from the suggested one.

Guze Xerri (on 6/7/09)

Do we need more prominently visible symbols of the Romanist religion on these islands? It is not like they are hard to find and especially rare.

Charles Sammut (on 6/7/09)

Bad idea, it does not fit with the new style which will be Valletta in 4 years time. Let's have some shapeless modern sculpture for the chattering columnists to ogle in reverent awe.