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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