Valletta - Auberge de Provence

The Auberge de Provence on Republic Street was the third of the French auberges and was designed by Cassar in 1571. The size of the building is deceptive, subtly hidden in the decoration of the facade; it actually spans from the heavy rusticated quoins, through four shops on either side of the portico, beneath the alternating triangular and segmental pediments.

From the mid-1820s to 1954 the auberge housed the Union Club of the British armed forces.