Casa Rocca Piccola

A 16th-century palazzo on Republic Street that remains the private home of a Maltese noble family and is opened to visitors as a lived-in historic house. Around fifty rooms display family portraits, antique furniture, silver and period costume, offering a rare glimpse of aristocratic domestic life in the old capital. Beneath the building runs a network of subterranean chambers cut into the rock, used as a wartime bomb shelter during the Second World War. Guided tours are led through the state rooms and chapel.