Set the scene.
The Nibbia Chapel belonged to the cemetery associated with Valletta’s Sacra Infermeria. It formed part of a wider landscape of care, death and remembrance around the hospital.
Here’s the twist.
A history in the Maltese Medical Journal records its destruction during wartime bombing, alongside the anatomical theatre and the Chapel of Bones. The damage reached beyond the hospital’s main wards.
Why it still matters.
A building can disappear while remaining important to understanding a place. Reading the hospital’s history through its lost neighbours shows how medical treatment, teaching and burial once occupied connected spaces.
🧠 One to think about +
What does this story change about the way you see Malta today? Pick one detail you’d tell a friend — then check its source below.
