A small Valletta house

50Archbishop Street, Valletta.

The lounge and kitchen at No. 50: limestone walls, pendant lamps, a long cream sofa, kitchen counter, and a large painting. — Plate I · The Lounge MMXXVI

A narrow townhouse on the upper reach of Archbishop Street, fifty paces from St John’s Co-Cathedral. Two floors of restored Valletta interior — honey-coloured limestone, black timber shutters, terrazzo and marble floors — available for long-term let.

The rooms are furnished and hung: a pair of lounges on the lower floor, a kitchen, a sitting room behind tall doors, a bedroom with Venetian chandelier, a fitted bathroom, original art on most walls. It is a working house — lived in, not staged — and a quiet one, by the measure of Valletta streets.

— The Owner, April 2026.

A bedroom with dark wood ceiling beams, half-limestone half-charcoal walls, a Venetian glass chandelier, gallery wall of small framed works, and a window bench set into a thick wall embrasure. — Plate II The Bedroom

The main lounge in wide view: tall mirror, cream sofa with mustard throw, dining table and pendant lamps, terrazzo floor. — Plate III The Lounge

Looking through tall black doors into the yellow sitting room beyond, leather ottoman and stacked books in the foreground. — Plate IV Through the Doors

The bedroom seen from the opposite corner: chandelier, dark beamed ceiling, leather reading chair and red rug beside the bed. — Plate V The Bedroom, from the Door

A bathroom with dark blue-green tile walls, a freestanding tub, a round mirror, and white brick-pattern tile. — Plate VI The Bath

The lounge in portrait view: chandelier, sofa, and the fish painting above. — Plate VII The Lounge, Evening

I. The Particulars

What the house offers, and on what terms.

The Accommodation

Two floors, fully furnished. Double bedroom with Venetian glass chandelier, sitting room, lounge and kitchen, fitted bathroom. Original art hung throughout.

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The Terms

Long-term let only — measured in months, not nights. Not a holiday rental. Fully furnished, references required.

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The Setting

The upper reach of Archbishop Street — quiet by Valletta measure, fifty paces from St John’s Co-Cathedral, and a short walk to everything the Belt has to offer.

II. The Neighbourhood

Within a short walk of the door.

50 paces

St John’s Co-Cathedral

Austere without, sumptuous within. Designed by Girolamo Cassar in 1573; baroqued into splendour by Mattia Preti a century later. The Oratory holds Caravaggio’s Beheading of St John the Baptist — the only work he ever signed.

1 min

Republic Street

The spine of the city, running gate to fort. Booksellers, old pharmacies, law courts, and the flow of the Belt.

2 min

Grand Master’s Palace

Stern without, as is the Valletta way. Inside, the Tapestry Chamber, the Armoury, and rooms of Preti ceilings.

3 min

Casa Rocca Piccola

A sixteenth-century palazzo still lived in by the Marquis de Piro. Private library, family portraits, war-time shelters cut into the rock below.

4 min

Teatru Manoel

Europe’s third-oldest working theatre, opened 1732. A small painted jewel-box of gilt balconies and trompe-l’œil ceiling.

5 min

MUŻA · Auberge d’Italie

Malta’s national collection of fine art, rehung in the old Italian Knights’ auberge. Preti, Favray, contemporary Maltese painters.

6 min

Upper Barrakka Gardens

High over the Grand Harbour. The Saluting Battery fires at noon and four — set your clock by it. Views across to the Three Cities.

7 min

Lascaris War Rooms

The underground wartime command post from which the defence of Malta and Operation Husky were run. Cut into the bastion rock beneath the Barrakka.

around the corner

Sailors Paradise

The neighbourhood bar. The nearest espresso, the reliable glass of wine, the first and last stop of most evenings.

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III. Correspondence

All enquiries — terms, viewings, availability.