Valletta Region is Travelog's home for the City of Valletta, inscribed by UNESCO in 1980 under criteria (i) and (vi), recognized both as a masterpiece of human creative genius in its dense concentration of Baroque architecture, and for its direct association with the Knights of St John and the Great Siege of 1565.
Valletta's dual UNESCO criteria, artistic genius and direct historical association, are worth understanding as two genuinely separate reasons for the listing, live below with its full landmark coverage.
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