Beauty unveiled

Some of the scaffolding covering one side of Auberge de Castille, the 16th century office of the Prime Minister, in Merchants Street, Valletta has been removed to reveal a beautifully restored façade. The Restoration Unit started the painstaking...

Some of the scaffolding covering one side of Auberge de Castille, the 16th century office of the Prime Minister, in Merchants Street, Valletta has been removed to reveal a beautifully restored façade. The Restoration Unit started the painstaking process to remove the grime last July. It will take restorers until 2012 to finish the job on all three sides of this majestic building which, when considering the elaborate sculptured decorations, spans some 6,000-square metres in all.

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