Roseville, a new €5 million home for the elderly in Attard, is nearing completion and will be inaugurated in June.

Roseville is owned by Care Malta Group, Malta's largest and leading private care provider. The group already operates six other similar facilities across Malta.

The group this morning celebrated the termination of the construction and the project has now moved to its final stage of finishing and completion.

Group chairman Nazzareno Vassallo said that Roseville was a very ambitious project: “Roseville is an early 20th century house and one of Malta’s few Art Nouveau country villas. This unique architectural gem with its floral sculpted window-surrounds and painted motifs recalls the Art Nouveau houses of Brussels, Antwerp and Central Europe. The project includes major restoration work on the villa as well as the development of an extension to house the facilities for the elderly.”

Roseville is located in St Anthony Street, opposite Villa Apap Bologna and has gardens adjacent to San Anton Palace. It is a scheduled building and Care Malta has invested significant resources and finances in its restoration.

The interior of the house is also notable for its Egyptian-inspired decoration, with motifs based on the Egyptology style that was fashionable at the time. The house was built in two phases; the ground floor was built in 1912 by architect Alessandro Manara and the first floor was added in 1921 by architect Emanuele Borg in the same architectural grammar of the ground floor.

Mr Vassallo explained that Care Malta was investing €5 million in the project and it was expected that it will create up to 100 new jobs, between full-time and part-time positions.

“We believe that there is a very good niche in the market for a quality home for the elderly in the area."