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Valletta Market

Valletta, Italy

Valletta Market

Is-Suq tal-Belt (IPA: [ɪˈsːuːʔ tɐl ˈbɛlt]; Maltese for 'City Market' or 'Valletta Market'), also known as the Covered Market, is a 19th-century market hall located in Valletta, Malta. It is notable for being the first building in Malta to be constructed mostly of iron. The building was severely dama

ged in World War II, and the rebuilding was insensitive to the original structure. Further alterations were made in later decades, and the market began to decline in the 1970s. An attempt to rebrand it as a shopping arcade known as Ixtri Malti (Buy Maltese) in the 1980s was unsuccessful. The market continued to decline until it was renovated in 2016–17, and reopened as a food market in January 2018.

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