Ich habe letzte Woche in Valetta in der Nummer 86 (links rot markiert) übernachtet.
Meine Frage ist nun: Was verbirgt sich hinter der Tür zur Nummer 87? Wo befindet sich der Wohnraum?
Wenn ich mich auf Malta umschaue, sehe ich viele Gebäude, die scheinbar nur Platz für eine Wohnung bieten, aber über zwei Eingänge verfügen.
Kann mir irgendein historischer Architekt etwas über die Nummer 87 sagen?
https://i.redd.it/6ywjlh8vcrpd1.jpeg
Von damienlaughton
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I stayed in a place like this. One door leads to a staircase and the house is from the 1st floor up. Other door was a 2 story place, but as it’s on a hill, you want down.
I’m guessing that is not exceptional.
Not a historical architect, but usually there could be:
– ground floor level space (imagine a rectangle behind the door and that could be the GF) could be anything, a store, a small studio
– ground floor + underground. Many places in Valletta (and other localities) have underground space where the pavement would be above the living space
ive seen small uninteresting doors that lead to villas with massive gardens in the back. something similar is happening here except without the gardens probably
Valletta is a very strange place with strange and interesting architecture. The city was built by the knights of St John sometime in the 1600’s. Most of the buildings were built for the knights, in Auberge’s housed for said knights, and churches which had adjacent houses for their priests and staff. About 1/3 of the city was destroyed in the second world war. And during the rebuilding process a lot of rooms and parts of other houses/buildings were stolen.
In my house in Valletta there are at least two rooms which are no longer accessible to me as they were taken by whoever was building and living next door at the time. My house was also part of a greater church complex as discussed above. The example you pointed out could have been two houses which were combined into one, and the little door on the right must have been some kind of small store which the owner of the building could either use or rent out, or even have sold. From my time living here, this is likely the scenario. Hope that sheds some light to your question.