One World - Protecting the most significant buildings, monuments and features of the Maltese islands (34)
Villa Violette
Villa Violette in Triq is-Salib tal-Marsa, Marsa has a balanced façade consisting of a central doorway with a twin columned portico that supports a closed wooden balcony at first floor supported on a columnaded portico.
There are four plain rectangular windows on the façade, located one on each side of main door on ground floor and on each side of the wooden balcony at first floor. A cornice runs along the front below the parapet wall.
A small door leads to a ground floor wing at the right.
This leads to a five arched veranda overlooking the garden while its roof serves as a terrace for the first floor. To the left is a similar door with a triangular pediment above which leads to a small room flanking Triq San Bernard.
On this side there is an iron gate support by two chamfered stone pillars, each of which is topped by a large stone chalice-like flowerpot.
The villa is located at the top of a ramp and has an underground complex at ground level which together with the sculptured façade at street level, form part of the villa complex and are protected as well.
Mepa scheduled Villa Violette as a Grade 2 national monument as per Government Notice no. 628/08 in the Government Gazette dated July 21, 2008.
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msciberras
Sep 8th 2009, 18:07
The picture says it all and expresses the complete hypocrisy of Maltese heritage protection efforts. We are supposed to sit back and applaud MEPA, the gov for protecting this building? As with other buildings depicted in this series, the picture shows a building that is utterly abandoned, with gaping windows. When it has deteriorated enough, its heritage listing will be removed and the site developed if it so pleases the owners. To speed up matters someone may light a match to it as they did with Australia Hall in Pembroke. Give us a break gov and MEPA
Joe Xuereb
Sep 8th 2009, 12:53
Thank you for this series, especially since the articles are now accompanied by good photographs. This looks to me like yet another abandoned building, left to dilapidate in its own good time. Why is this allowed to happen? It does not seem so old as to be beyond repair. Why are we being so wasteful? If it is made habitable, it will regenerate itself. With normal repairs like any other lived-in building. Left to its own devices, it can only deteriorate and vulnerable to vandalism. Come on Govt. - whoever is in powe, it matters not - show that you give a damn. That the country you were elected to govern, matters.
j n ebejer
Sep 8th 2009, 11:22
Good information on it's architecture. Can we have some informaton when it came to be built, architect, style, influences, maybe who lived in it or some story connected to it? The context that is, which makes one appreciate it better.
thank you for this series.