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To be able to do this, construction was begun on a series of entrenchments close to the fault. These entrenchments were similar to the ones built around the coastline, with the main difference being that they were inland. The Naxxar
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Today, the entrenchment lies in ruins, but it is considered to be the best preserved inland entrenchment in Malta. Most of the curtain walls had collapsed by the 1970s, but the redans remain largely intact. Part of the entrenchment is breached by Triq is-Salina, the road leading to
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