List of fortifications in Malta
This is a list of fortifications of Malta.
Prehistoric fortifications
Walled cities
Forts
Towers
Notes:- For privately built towers, see List of fortifications of Malta#Fortified houses and privately built towers.
Batteries
Name | Image | Location | Built | Builder | Status |
1715 | ![]() | Intact, abandoned | |||
1715 | ![]() | Intact, used as a restaurant | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished, ditch survives | |||
1878–1886 | ![]() | Intact, restoration planned | |||
1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1798–1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1793 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1888–1893 | ![]() | Intact, restoration planned | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Intact, used as a restaurant | |||
1889–1894 | ![]() | Intact, restoration planned | |||
1715 | ![]() | Ruins | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1854–1856 | ![]() | Intact | |||
1757 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1714 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1761 | ![]() | Intact, restored | |||
1897–1899 | ![]() | Partially demolished, one gun emplacement survives. | |||
1715 | ![]() | Heavily altered | |||
1715 | ![]() | Ruins | |||
1715 | ![]() | Intact, used as a restaurant and swimming pool | |||
1716 | ![]() | Intact, abandoned | |||
1715 | ![]() | Ruins | |||
1715 | ![]() | Ruins | |||
1714 | ![]() | Mostly intact, restoration planned | |||
1878–1886 | ![]() | Intact, restored | |||
1731–1732 | ![]() | Intact, restored | |||
1715 | ![]() | Battery partially intact, tower intact | |||
1715 | ![]() | Battery demolished, tower intact | |||
1715 | ![]() | Intact, restored | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1881–1886 | ![]() | Intact, abandoned | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1602 | ![]() | Destroyed, ditch survives | |||
1798–1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Tower intact, battery rebuilt on modern interpretative lines. | |||
1560s | ![]() | Intact, restored | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1872–1876 | ![]() | Intact, used as a restaurant | |||
1889–1894 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1887–1890s | ![]() | Intact, restoration planned | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished. The church around which the battery was built still exists. | |||
1722 | ![]() | Demolished, ditch survives | |||
1715 | ![]() | Intact, dilapidated | |||
1715 | ![]() | Blockhouse intact, gun platform destroyed | |||
1715 | ![]() | Gun platform intact, blockhouse heavily altered | |||
1715 | ![]() | Battery mostly intact, tower intact | |||
1714 | ![]() | Blockhouse intact, gun platform destroyed | |||
1897–1899 | ![]() | Intact | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1882–1886 | ![]() | Intact, used as a farm |
Notes:
- Batteries located within larger fortifications are not included in the above list unless they are notable in their own right. Such batteries include:
- *De Guiral Battery in Fort Saint Angelo
- *Grunenburgh's Batteries in Fort Saint Angelo, Valletta and Senglea
- *Low Battery in the Cittadella
- *Several other batteries within the fortifications of Birgu
- Anti-aircraft batteries built in World War II are also not included.
Redoubts
Name | Image | Location | Built | Builder | Status |
1715 | ![]() | Intact, used as a bar | |||
1715 | ![]() | Intact, used as a police station | |||
1715 | ![]() | Ruins | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1720 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Partially intact | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Intact | |||
1799 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1716 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1799 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1715 | ![]() | Ruins | |||
1715 | ![]() | Intact, used as a football club headquarters | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished. The windmill around which the redoubt was built still exists. | |||
1715 | ![]() | Intact, restored | |||
1715 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished |
Entrenchments
Name | Image | Location | Built | Builder | Status |
1761 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1761 | ![]() | Partially intact | |||
1723–1732 | ![]() | Ruins | |||
![]() | Partially intact | ||||
1761 | ![]() | Never completed Largely intact | |||
![]() | Short stretch intact | ||||
1722 | ![]() | Partially intact | |||
1761 | ![]() | Short stretch survives in ruins | |||
![]() | Few remains survive | ||||
1720 | ![]() | Few remains survive | |||
![]() | Short stretch intact | ||||
1799 | ![]() | Demolished | |||
1761 | ![]() | Partially intact | |||
1761 | ![]() | Never completed Largely intact | |||
1761 | ![]() | Short stretches intact | |||
1761 | ![]() | Ruins | |||
1761 | ![]() | Ruins |
Notes:
- Entrenchments were originally planned to be built around the entire coastline of the Maltese Islands. The ones listed here are those of which some remains survive, or which are definitely known to have existed.
Lines of fortification
- The Floriana Lines, Santa Margherita Lines and the Cottonera Lines are also lines of fortification, but they are listed with the walled cities since they are close to settlements.
Stop walls
Fortified houses and privately built towers
*
Name | Image | Location | Built | Builder | Status |
1702 or 1775 | Destroyed during WWII | ||||
Intact | |||||
Intact | |||||
Intact. Built before 1649. Also known as tas-Sarretta Tower. Intact but machicolations removed. They appear to were still partially intact on 21 August, 1933. | |||||
Intact | |||||
Intact | |||||
Demolished, some stonework survives | |||||
Dismantled; stonework used to built farmhouses | |||||
Intact, restored | |||||
Intact, converted into a farmhouse | |||||
Destroyed during WWII | |||||
Intact | |||||
D'Aurel Family | Intact | ||||
Intact and used as a rural building with a close by watermill. | |||||
Intact | |||||
Intact. Also known as Tal-Kwies Tower. | |||||
18th century | Unprofessionally modified in 1758 | ||||
Intact |