Lascaris
Inside Lascaris.
Photo courtesy of Juliette Strefford
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A good tip. Don't
try & find your way to it from the quayside as their are no signs.
Best way is from Valletta main Street from where it is well signed.
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A privately run Museum
with a small entrance fee of around 1 Maltese Lira.
Open - Mon-Fri 9.30 - 4.30......Sat - Sun 9.30 - 1pm. |
Tel: (Malta) 234936.
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Originally dug out of the rock by the French knight
Jean Lascaris around 1650 it was initially used to house Turkish prisoners
who built the fortifications around
Grand Harbour & Valletta. Conditions were not good. Later in WWII the
rooms were converted to be the headquarters of the operations on Malta &
the planning for
Operation Husky - the invasion of Sicily.
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Top of the Bastion taken in 2006. |
Taken in 2006 |
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Kenneth Cook, Valletta 1943 |
Lascaris Personnel. Valletta,
Christmas day 1943. |
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Communications Room, Lascaris. |
Communications Room, Lascaris. |
Lascaris Personnel. |
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Triangulation table |
Anti aircraft guns room |
Plot table |
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Squadron readyness chart |
Wall map used in planning Operation Husky |
Plot table |
References
| Lascaris Association | http://www.lascarisassoc.britanianet.co.uk/ |
| Search Malta | http://www.searchmalta.com/dir/Reference_And_Information/Photos/more17.shtml |
