Girolomo Cassar, a Maltese architect that studied military engineer, took over the construction of Valletta. Lapparelli, a military engineer, drew up the original plan and soon after he left the island. Valletta was planned from scratch, in a grid plan by the personnel architect of Pope Pius V, Lapparelli.
De Vallette’s plan was to build an impregnable fortress, capable to withstand any future attacks, both seaward and landward. The first foundation stone was laid in 1566 by Grand Master Jean Parisot de Vallette, just eight months after the Great Siege of Malta, naming the city after himself, Valletta. In 1551, a star shaped fort, St Elmo, was built on the tip of the peninsula. John in 1530, Mount Sceberras, on which Valletta today stands, was just an arid peninsula, lying between two harbours, the Grand harbour and Marsamxetto harbour. Valletta capital city of Malta Valletta Capital city of Maltaīuilt by the Knights of St John, Valletta became the capital city of Malta after the the famous Great Siege.
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