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277: 227: 63: 51: 261:, which had been built in 1683 on the site of an earlier chapel. Apart from being the only Hospitaller redoubt incorporating a church, St. George Redoubt is also unusual since it has a semi-circular shape, while most redoubts were pentagonal. The semi-circular platform is ringed by a low parapet. The walls linking the redoubt to the church are pierced by musketry loopholes, while the doorway had a ditch and a drawbridge. 245:
Saint George Redoubt was built in 1714–1716 as part of the first building programme of coastal batteries in Malta. It was part of a chain of fortifications that defended Marsaxlokk Bay, which also included three other redoubts, the large
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as one of a series of coastal fortifications around the Maltese Islands. It is named after a
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were excavated behind the redoubt. They are now located within private houses.
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The redoubt was built on the site of a cemetery. It incorporated the
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of the period are still found at the coast next to the redoubt.
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The redoubt's platform, with the chapel to the left
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Birżebbuġa
Malta


35°49′52″N 14°31′49.7″E / 35.83111°N 14.530472°E / 35.83111; 14.530472
Redoubt
Archdiocese of Malta
Missionary Society of St Paul
Order of Saint John
Limestone
Maltese
redoubt
Birżebbuġa
Malta
Order of Saint John
chapel dedicated to St. George

Bronze Age
silos
Saint Lucian Tower
De Redin towers
Chapel of St. George
fougasses

Missionary Society of St Paul
National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands
"Scheduling of Properties"
"Vendôme Tower"
the original
"Cemeteries"

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