Palace of the Grand Master, 16th-18th centuries. Residence of the Grand Master of the Order of Saint John. Fresco that the decorates the walls of the Supreme Council Room by Matteo Perez de Aleccio (1547-1628). It depicts the Great Siege of Malta by the Ottoman Empire in 1565. Siege of the Turks in July 1565 before the resistance of the gun batteries of the Spanish troops. Valletta. Malta.

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