Protecting the most significant buildings, monuments and features of Pembroke (16)

Financed by Grand Master Martín de Redin, Madliena Tower stands as the most northern defensive feature in Pembroke, close to Baħar iċ-Ċagħaq. It consists of two fortified rooms above each other with a fighting parapet on the roof, having a platform for a small gun. The lower half of the outer walls is buttressed (sloped) and a cordon separates the lower half from the upper part and another cordon is at roof level.

Madliena Tower was one of a few towers which the British retained in use and armed with a 64 lb rifle muzzle loading gun mounted on a circular traversing sliding carriage to protect the northwestern approach to Grand Harbour. When the 12 lb quick firing night practice battery was erected adjacently, the tower was used as a firing control station and accommodation for the gun crews, until the battery was struck off from military use at the end of the World War I.

Mepa scheduled Madliena Tower in 1996 as Grade 1 property of historic, architectural and contextual value as it forms part of a larger scheduled military complex, and its protection status was reconfirmed following a revision as republished in Government Notice number 880/09 dated October 30, 2009.