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complex in 2017, and a project involving the restoration of the site and the construction of a new MICAS building on the nearby San
Salvatore Bastion was announced the following year. The project was intended to be completed by 2021, but the scheduled opening date has since been moved to late 2024.
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as built in the 1730s had an irregular plan which featured a courtyard with an arcade and a fountain. The complex included a chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary and a sacristy. During the
British period, the complex included a Protestant chapel.
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store and a trade school by the early 1970s. Parts of the site were being used as an
Immigration Office and a Security Branch in 1975. The Restoration Directorate established its offices in the nearby Polverista Curtain in 1997.
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to be financially independent, although at times this was insufficient and its income was later supplemented by a tax on notarial acts and by annual contributions of 1500
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in 1816. In around the 1820s, nearby buildings were taken over and incorporated into the complex. Between
September 1835 and 1838, all mentally ill patients in the
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during the French occupation, while from 1804 to 1832 and 1848 to 1894 the site also housed an orphanage for illegitimate children. On 15 January 1815, Governor
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worked by producing thread from cotton, the proceeds of which were divided between the women and the institution. The income this generated allowed for the
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was administered by a ten-member commission which included four elderly
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adjacent to the factory; the former factory was subsequently closed as it was not deemed suitable for housing patients. The
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being added in the vicinity in later decades. The factory continued to produce gunpowder until the early 1720s.
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it was used as a workshop where hospital furniture and medical devices were manufactured. During
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After Malta became independent in 1964, the
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with a set of new regulations in 1785, and at this point its name was changed to the
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for female prisoners. Mentally ill patients were chained to walls in casements.
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where elderly patients were cared for. On 6 December 1732, Grand Master
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as depicted on an 1831 map, labelled as an "Asylum for
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until 1895. Its buildings were subsequently transferred to the
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began making plans to construct a gunpowder factory along the
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269:which was constructed to designs of
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369:and the early years of
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