Valletta's Dark Side Tour: the city at night and its secret stories

Valletta is known as "a city built by gentlemen for gentlemen". A paradise of baroque art, traditional food, and stunning beauty. But there is always a different story! The story of a city built by fanatic Christian monk-warriors for a perpetual Crusade. The story of one of the most famous red districts in the whole of the British Empire. Stories of murders, executions, prostitution, plague and lost souls in a city full of vice, misery and criminality. Come to see Valletta under a different light discovering secret nooks, and listening to a different version of the past by hearing about assassins, criminals, pirates and prostitutes instead of crusaders, priests and monks; changing churches and baroque buildings by haunted houses; the most glorious history for the most dramatic moments. Discover a different facet of the city, still beautiful in its surface, but with many tragedies, spectres and dark secrets in its guts.

This is a night walking tour which main aim is to show you the most gloomy and creepy aspects of the city, but also some of its legends, history and its less known spots. To do so, we will stroll many backstreets and stop in many not marked landmarks. Some of the well-known places that we will pass are (we will enter in no buildings): -Republic and Merchant streets -Upper Barrakka Gardens (notice that, although public, this garden has opening times, which can also be variated by events or unexpected reasons) -Republic and St George squares -The old Courts of the Order, the Royal Opera House and St Johns cocathedral. I may vary a bit the route if you show a particular interest. The city is completely secure at night. We can pass some time in the old Red District, where you may have time for a drink. The red district is not as it used to be, so we will find no prostitutes nor fights, but restaurants and pubs (I am sorry, but if you are in fight mood, this is not the proper area anymore!)