Upper Barrakka Gardens

Upper Barrakka Gardens

The Upper Barrakka Gardens (Il-Barrakka ta' Fuq) is a public garden in Valletta, Malta. It offers a panoramic view of the Grand Harbour.

Valletta's most beautiful park, already 1775 on the bastion of St. Peter and Paul created, is the highest and most impressive point of the city walls and offers a magnificent view over the Grand Harbour and the old towns of Senglea and Vittoriosa, at the shipyard as well as the lower-lying parts the capital. In the park there are several statues, including one from Sir Winston Churchill, and a successful sculpture of the Maltese sculptor Antonio Sciortino, entitled "The street boys."The garden was the gift of an eighteenth-century knight.