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The Grand Opera House Bombed to Ruins by the Luftwaffe

Lost Masterpieces

When Malta’s Royal Opera House was struck by German bombs on April 7, 1942, it was reduced to rubble. It would take until 2013 for a new cultural center to be built there.

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