In St. John's Co-Cathedral in La Valletta, Malta. - Painting is by Caravaggio.
Otto Settembre monument, commemorating victory over the Turks, after a 3 month summer siege in 1565. The Turks invaded with around 45,000 troops against around a few hundred Knights of Malta and 9,000 Maltese able to fight. The Siege lasting 3 hot summer months with thousands of deaths, ended, as far as I know as soon as the decimated Turks noticed approaching Italian and Spanish troops arriving from Sicily. The monument, erected in the 1920s, was done in order to celebrate the Otto Settembre, back then considered by Maltese nationalists as the national holiday.
The interior of St. John's Co-Cathedral, the pavimento features some of the tombs of some Knights of Malta.
That's enough for now.
