Missing well cover

In the Saracens' attack on Malta in September 1429, they destroyed the Augustinian monastery and church. The Augustinians took refuge in Mdina administering the church of the Visitation from a neighbouring house which arrived up to Pjazza Mesquita. A...

In the Saracens' attack on Malta in September 1429, they destroyed the Augustinian monastery and church.

The Augustinians took refuge in Mdina administering the church of the Visitation from a neighbouring house which arrived up to Pjazza Mesquita. A door of this house is in the corner of this square.

Most probably Pjazza Mesquita was the garden used by the Augustinians because in the middle of this square a well called Il-Bir ta' Santu Wistin (the well of St Augustine) still exists. The well's cover (herza) was removed in the last century.

I appeal to the local council and the chairman of the Mdina Rehabilitation Project for this well cover to be replaced for the sake of Mdina's history in the year Malta has been united with Europe. After all, Pope John Paul II has called St Augustine "Patron of Christian Europe".

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