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Old Prison (Victoria)

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60: 72: 224: 546: 263: 17: 36:, adjacent to the Courts of Justice to which it was originally connected. Today, the prison complex is divided into two different buildings: the entrance hall, which had been a common cell in the 19th century, and a free-standing block with six individual cells. 323: 362: 592: 212: 190: 59: 328: 71: 582: 577: 318: 303: 370: 495: 161: 308: 313: 42:
First, it used to host the rowdiest or most riotous knights, as a place to cool down. Even the most historical knight, Fra
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walls. Representations are often of ships, hand-prints, crosses, names, dates, games, and anthropomorphic figures.
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The site is well preserved in its original state, and a large amount of graffiti is etched into the
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The prison was active from the mid-16th century until 1962.
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Victoria
Gozo
Jean Parisot de Valette
limestone
Graffiti etched into the walls by the prisoners
Graffiti etched into the walls by the prisoners
"Museum/Old Prison"
"Heritage Malta"
"Prisoner's Grafiti. The old prison Gozo"
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Victoria, Gozo
Victoria, Gozo
Invasion of Gozo (1551)
Saverio Cassar
Gozo (independent state)
Coat of arms of Victoria
Cittadella
St Mary's Cathedral
St George' Basilica
St Francis
St James
Nativity of Mary (Savina)
St Augustine
Annunciation
Our Lady of Pompei
Old St Joseph

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