Inquisitor's Palace, Birgu

One of the few surviving palaces of the Roman Inquisition anywhere in the world, standing in the maritime district of Birgu. Built in the 16th century and used by inquisitors until the late 18th century, it combines grand ceremonial halls with grim prison cells and a tribunal chamber. Today it operates as the National Museum of Ethnography, with displays on religious life, popular devotion and the workings of the Inquisition in Malta. Visitors can walk through the courtyard, chapel and the cramped cells scratched with prisoners' graffiti.