Palazzo Falson

Mdina, Malta

Open to visitors

The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.

Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.

Opening hours: Tu-Su 10:00-17:00
Admission: Ticketed
Phone: +356 2145 4512

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Palazzo Falson is a medieval Norman townhouse in Mdina, Malta, believed to have been built around 1495, likely incorporating parts of a 13th-century structure, making it the second oldest building in the historic city after Palazzo Santa Sofia. Originally a family residence of the Maltese nobility and variously known as Palazzo Cumbo-Navarra, Casa dei Castelletti, and the Norman House, it may have hosted Philippe Villiers de L'Isle-Adam, the first Grand Master of the Order of St. John in Malta. The building was enlarged in the mid-16th century, with its distinctive upper floor windows possibly designed by Jacobo Dimeg. In the twentieth century, Olof Frederick Gollcher acquired and restored the palazzo; it has been open to the public as the Palazzo Falson Historic House Museum since 2007, displaying seventeen rooms of period furnishings and antique collections amassed by Gollcher and managed by Fondazzjoni Patrimonju Malti. The structure holds Grade 1 scheduled status and appears on Malta's National Inventory of Cultural Property.

Movement

Norman architecture

Built: 2007
Type: palace, museum building
Place: Mdina, Malta

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