Palazzo Nasciaro

Palazzo Nasciaro is an 18th-century townhouse in Naxxar (Casal Nasciaro), Malta, built during the Order of St. John. The townhouse was originally built as a family home, but has undergone adaptive reuse several times to fit the changing needs of the local population. The building was first constructed to be the primary home, and later vacation home, of the architects who designed it. During the British period, it served as the Lieutenant's House (Dar -il Kmand), serving a post for the administration of regions in Malta. It would later serve as the first police station in Naxxar and the first police headquarters of the region. The building was also used as the first primary school of Naxxar. An air raid shelter was constructed in the house during World War II and used by the local community when Malta was bombarded; the shelter hosted a maternity ward for an underground hospital. The recent renaming of the townhouse as Palazzo Nasciaro could be misleading as its layout shows it is not a palace. The renaming is probably used for romanticism. The townhouse is claimed to have rococo architecture a type of baroque architecture.

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