Admiralty House (Valletta)

Admiralty House (Maltese: id-Dar tal-Ammirall) (formerly known as Casa Miari, Palazzo Don Raimondo and by several other names) is a palace in Valletta, Malta. It was originally built between 1569 and 1570 as two private houses by Fra. Jean de Soubiran dit Arafat, a knight of the Order of St. John. The houses were later leased to various owners, including Fra. Raimondo de Sousa y Silva, who rebuilt them a single residence between 1761 and 1763. In 1808, Louis Charles, Count of Beaujolais, was received at the house, where he subsequently died of tuberculosis. From 1821 to 1961, the building was the official residence of the Commander-in-Chief of the British Mediterranean Fleet, hence its name. The building housed the National Museum of Fine Arts from 1974 to 2016. Currently there are plans to restore the house and convert it into the Office of the Attorney General.