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The Street Shrines of Victoria in Victoria, Malta
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Look up as you walk the old lanes of Victoria, Gozo's capital, and you'll start seeing them: small religious shrines — niċeċ in Maltese — set into house walls and above doorways. Some are elaborate stone niches holding carved saints under Baroque canopies; others are simple painted figures behind glass, with a vase of plastic flowers and a lamp someone still lights at night. There are more than fifty surviving in the town, some over three hundred years old.
They were built by householders, not t
They were built by householders, not t
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