In the same building were the Office and Court of Appeals. The institution included two judges, one for the civil court and one for the criminal court. He was ceremonially always followed by a page boy carrying a rod on a cushion when walking in public, with the rod symbolising his position, earning him the nickname captain of the rod. It was headed by a Castellan, also known as the President of the Castellania, who was a knight of the Order. The institution followed the Sicilian legal system, known as the Ritus Magnæ Curiæ Siciliæ. Johannes Quintinus was given responsibility to prepare the first set of laws for Malta, which were later established by the Grand Master. It was among the first institutions that was found to require reforms. The institution was established in Malta after the arrival of the Order on 5 September 1533, during the magistracy of Grandmaster Philippe de L'Isle-Adam and it is sometimes distinguishably known as the Magnæ Curiæ Caſtellaniæ Melitenſis. The institution was founded for the first time in Palestine in 1186, then established in Rhodes when it became known as Pragmaticæ Rhodiæ, and remained active there until the expulsion of the Order from the island in 1522. The Magna Curia Castellania ( Italian: Gran Corte della Castellania English: High Court of the Castellania), was the courts and tribunals during the rule of the Order of St. The building's ground floor contains a number of shops, while the belongings of Sir Themistocles Zammit's laboratory are now housed at the second floor and is open to the public by appointment as The Brucellosis Museum. The department was eventually succeeded by Malta's health ministry which is still housed in the Castellania. In 1895, the building was converted into the head office of the Public Health Department.
The Castellania was then abandoned, before being briefly converted into an exhibition centre, a tenant house and a school. By the mid-19th century the building was deemed too small, and the courts were gradually moved to Auberge d'Auvergne between 18. Features of the interior include former court halls, a chapel, prison cells, a statue of Lady Justice at the main staircase and an ornate fountain in the courtyard.įrom the late 18th to the early 19th century, the building was also known by a number of names, including the Palazzo del Tribunale, the Palais de Justice and the Gran Corte della Valletta. It is a prominent building in Merchants Street, having an ornate façade with an elaborate marble centrepiece.
The building was built in the Baroque style to design of the architect Francesco Zerafa, and completed by Giuseppe Bonici. John between 17, on the site of an earlier courthouse which had been built in 1572. The Castellania ( Maltese: Il-Kastellanija Italian: La Castellania), also known as the Castellania Palace ( Maltese: Il-Palazz Kastellanja Italian: Palazzo Castellania), is a former courthouse and prison in Valletta, Malta. Limestone (façade decorated with Carrara marble)
Ministry for Health, the Elderly and Community Care Gran Corte della Castellania (many variants)
The main façade of the Castellania in 2018
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