Renzo Piano's City Gate Project
The present City Gate (currently under construction) will be the fifth to have stood at the entrance to Valletta. In 2011 work started to a second design by Renzo Piano for the gate and surrounding area which should see the area renovated over the coming years. As part of that works the previous gate structure was demolished in May 2011.
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