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The postcards pre-war Maltese restaurants used as advertising


This is part one in a two-part series of articles. 
Before tourism really took off in the 1960s, “eating out” represented an extraordinary experience. Sure, restaurants, trattorie, bistros and taverns existed, however, they mostly catered for British servicemen and foreign visitors in Malta or for Maltese who strayed far from their residences, like those visiting St Paul’s Bay (Gillieru and Veċċja), Rabat (Pont de Vue), Għajn Tuffieħa (Riviera), Birżebbuġa (Dowdall’s), Gozo (Il-Barakka tal-Mġarr) and a few more.
Promotion for the restaurant of the Hotel d’Angleterre in St Lucia Street, Valletta.
Generally, one dined out of home as a necessity, not as a choice. Many hotels provided meals but some standalone eating establishments could also be found. For an excellent overview of early hospitality establishments in Malta, see Joseph Cassar Pullicino’s essay ....

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It happened in January: Malta pawned to Gonsalvo De Monroy 600 years ago


Perhaps one of the best-known and very popular episodes of the Maltese islands’ medieval history relates how the populace heroically rose against their local lord, Don Gonsalvo de Monroy (or Monroi), in 1426-27. A sizeable number of local historians have devoted ample space to this episode but all the authors were at a loss when they tried to explain why the Maltese revolted against Monroy but not against his predecessor, Don Antonio de Cardona.
The well-known recounted story ran thus: in January 1420, King Alfonso I of Sicily (and V of Aragon), known as The Magnanimous, born in 1396 and who reigned from 1416 till 1458, was in need of funds to pursue his costly foreign policy of aggrandisement, and so he pawned the Maltese islands to Don Antonio Cardona (1395-1458) for 30,000 florins. ....

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