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Palazzo Parisio
A palace the Maltese call their own Versailles — a gilded ballroom, a Carrara-marble staircase beneath painted ceilings, and formal Italianate gardens laid out behind honey-stone walls.
Baroque palace & Italianate gardens
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The place
Palazzo Parisio began in 1733 as a hunting lodge for Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena, and became a palace in 1898 when the banker Marquis Giuseppe Scicluna bought it and spent seven years turning it into a winter residence of unusual ambition. What he left behind is still here, still in his family's hands: a double staircase in Carrara marble rising under frescoed and gilded ceilings, a ballroom carved and leafed in gold, the Sala Lombarda, vaulted stone cellars beneath, and walled gardens laid out in formal Italianate parterres. Weddings take the palace and its gardens together — vows in the parterres or the ballroom, dinner by candlelight along the Orangery, and a confetti walk out through the arched portal.
Ceremony settings
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Garden or ballroom ceremony
Vows in the formal parterres, or inside the gilded ballroom when the weather turns.
Why couples choose it
- A gilded ballroom and a Carrara-marble double staircase under frescoed ceilings
- Formal walled Italianate gardens, a member of the Grandi Giardini Italiani
- Candlelit dinners along the Orangery's honey-stone loggia
- Vaulted stone wine cellars beneath the palace
- Still owned and run by the Scicluna family who built it
- Celebrations from thirty guests to five hundred across palace and gardens
The Gallery
Palazzo Parisio, up close
See it in person
The full photography collection arrives at launch
Good to know
Questions, answered
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Enquiries
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