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 | Order of Saint John | Intact, abandoned | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Intact, used as a restaurant | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished, ditch survives | |||
1878–1886 | United Kingdom | Intact, restoration planned | |||
1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1798–1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1793 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1888–1893 | United Kingdom | Intact, restoration planned | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Intact, used as a restaurant | |||
1889–1894 | United Kingdom | Intact, restoration planned | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Ruins | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1854–1856 | United Kingdom | Intact | |||
1757 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1714 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1761 | Order of Saint John | Intact, restored | |||
1897–1899 | United Kingdom | Partially demolished, one gun emplacement survives. | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Heavily altered | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Ruins | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Intact, used as a restaurant and swimming pool | |||
1716 | Order of Saint John | Intact, abandoned | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Ruins | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Ruins | |||
1714 | Order of Saint John | Mostly intact, restoration planned | |||
1878–1886 | United Kingdom | Intact, restored | |||
1731–1732 | Order of Saint John | Intact, restored | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Battery partially intact, tower intact | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Battery demolished, tower intact | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Intact, restored | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1881–1886 | United Kingdom | Intact, abandoned | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1602 | Order of Saint John | Destroyed, ditch survives | |||
1798–1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Tower intact, battery rebuilt on modern interpretative lines. | |||
1560s | Order of Saint John | Intact, restored | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1872–1876 | United Kingdom | Intact, used as a restaurant | |||
1889–1894 | United Kingdom | Demolished | |||
1799 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1887–1890s | United Kingdom | Intact, restoration planned | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished. The church around which the battery was built still exists. | |||
1722 | Order of Saint John | Demolished, ditch survives | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Intact, dilapidated | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Blockhouse intact, gun platform destroyed | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Gun platform intact, blockhouse heavily altered | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Battery mostly intact, tower intact | |||
1714 | Order of Saint John | Blockhouse intact, gun platform destroyed | |||
1897–1899 | United Kingdom | Intact | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished | |||
1882–1886 | United Kingdom | 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 | Order of Saint John | Intact, used as a bar | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Intact, used as a police station | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Ruins | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1720 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Partially intact | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Intact | |||
1799 | Kingdom of Great Britain | Demolished | |||
1716 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1799 | Kingdom of Great Britain | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Ruins | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Intact, used as a football club headquarters | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished. The windmill around which the redoubt was built still exists. | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Intact, restored | |||
1715 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1798 | Maltese insurgents | Demolished |
Entrenchments
Name | Image | Location | Built | Builder | Status |
1761 | Order of Saint John | Demolished | |||
1761 | Order of Saint John | Partially intact | |||
1723–1732 | Order of Saint John | Ruins | |||
Order of Saint John | Partially intact | ||||
1761 | Order of Saint John | Never completed Largely intact | |||
Order of Saint John | Short stretch intact | ||||
1722 | Order of Saint John | Partially intact | |||
1761 | Order of Saint John | Short stretch survives in ruins | |||
Order of Saint John | Few remains survive | ||||
1720 | Order of Saint John | Few remains survive | |||
Order of Saint John | Short stretch intact | ||||
1799 | Kingdom of Great Britain | Demolished | |||
1761 | Order of Saint John | Partially intact | |||
1761 | Order of Saint John | Never completed Largely intact | |||
1761 | Order of Saint John | Short stretches intact | |||
1761 | Order of Saint John | Ruins | |||
1761 | Order of Saint John | 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 |