Description
A tri-centenary commemoration
Contents
Davina Sammut – Foreword
Joan Abela and Giulia Privitelli – Preface
Archbishop Charles J. Scicluna – Appreciation
Freddie Tonna and Stephen Tonna – The Life and History of the Gazette IL-FURJANA
William Zammit – Birth Pangs of a Town: The Evolution of the ‘Borgo Floriana’ under the Hospitallers
Stephen C. Spiteri – The Floriana Lines: A Defence in Depth
Joseph Schirò – Two Unknown Plans of Floriana
Conrad Thake – A Historical Appraisal of the Architecture and Urban Form of Floriana
Giannantonio Scaglione – Floriana’s Houses: The Building Space and Urban Military Strategies in the Eighteenth Century
Albert Ganado – The True Origin of the Sa Maison House and Garden
Joseph Buhagiar – Floriana’s Garden Jewels: The Argotti and St Philip Gardens
Petra Caruana Dingli – The Garden of Rest (Ġnien il-Mistrieħ): A Nineteenth-Century Protestant Cemetery on the Floriana Bastions
Nicholas Doublet – Casa Manresa: Its History and Artistic Collection
Martin Micallef – Paladini’s Paintings at the Old Floriana Capuchin Church and Friary
David Torpiano – Confraternities Canonically Erected in the Parish Church of St Publius
Charles Savona-Ventura – Social Service Facilities in Borgo Vilhena
Steven Mallia – Water Storage in Floriana: The Largest Water Storage in Malta during the Order of St John and the Early British Period
Noel Buttigieg – Aspects of Floriana’s Eighteenth-Century Foodscape
Mario Xuereb – The Furjaniżi and their Identity: Beyond Geneology Lies Mythology
Henry Frendo – Floriana Childhood Memories
Noel D’Anastas – ‘Come on! Come in! Come inside!’ The Good Old Days of Balzunetta
Nigel Holland and Jake Muscat – The Vilhena Philharmonic Society: 150 Years of History
Carmel Baldacchino – The Birth of Floriana FC (1894)
Mario H. Calleja – Scouting in Floriana
Andre P. Debattista – Borgo Vilhena as a Witness to Contemporary History: Principal Events in Floriana, 1910–2020
Paul P. Agius – The ‘Archivio Compagnoni Floriani’ in Macerata: A Personal Experience Focusing on Pietro Paolo Floriani
Martin Camilleri – 30 Years of Local Government in Floriana: A Fact Sheet
