This article is about the tower in Naxxar. For the one in Qrendi, see Cavalier Tower.
Captain's Tower (Maltese: Torri tal-Kaptan) is a tower in Naxxar, Malta. It was built sometime after 1548 by the Order of Saint John. Today, the tower is in good condition.
Captain's House and Tower after restoration and renovation
The Captain's Tower was built by the Order of Saint John to house the captain of the Naxxar militia. It was built during the tenure of Jean Parisot de Valette, after the Order of St. John unsuccessfully tried to requisition the nearby Gauci Tower in 1548. The Captain's Tower is one of the earliest Hospitaller fortifications in Malta.[1]
The tower's design is similar to the Gauci Tower as well as earlier Hospitaller towers in Rhodes.[2] The tower consists of a square plan with three floors. It contains a number of box machicolations, and a columbaria which housed carrier pigeons to relay messages to Mdina or Valletta.
The tower and the house built with it were used as a temporary hospital during the plague epidemic of 1675-6.[3]
Today, the Captain's Tower is in good condition. It is privately owned and is not open to the public.[4]
Referencesedit
^"Naxxar's Torre Gauci". Times of Malta. 28 February 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
^ abSpiteri, Stephen C. . MilitaryArchitecture.com. Archived from the original on 2016-01-16. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
^Micallef, Joseph (2015). Il-Pesta tal-1676 – 11,300 Mewta (in Maltese). BDL Publishing. p. 57. ISBN978-99957-46-55-1.
^(PDF). National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands. 28 June 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2015.
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