Qolla l-Bajda Battery

Qolla l-Bajda Battery Click to animate photo

Qolla l-Bajda Battery

The battery on the promontory between Qbajjar and Xwejni is the last vestige of a chain of fortifications built early in the eighteenth century around Marsalforn bay to avoid landings of enemy craft in the area. Known commonly, but wrongly, as Qbajjar Tower, this battery was raised between 1715 and 1716 under the direction of the military engineers Jacques de Camus D’Arginy and Bernard de Fontet.

National Archives Reference Number: 1608

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Locality
Locality
Marsalforn
Year
Year
circa 1950
Source(s)
Source(s)
National Archives Gozo

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