LASCARIS WAR ROOMS (Museum in Malta) | Secret World War 2 HQ in VALLETTA

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

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[@martindelia6590]

Thanks for the excellent tour and videos. I'm a Maltese born Aussie and have been back many times. Also spent 3 years living there from 2012-15. Your videos brought back many memories of this beautiful country with its rich history

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed the video and it brought back a few good memories. I'm still amazed by how much incredible stuff there is to see and do on what is a relatively small island. Wonderful place if you ask me!

[@OKMmike]

Another fantastic informed talk by Mike.

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Who's Mike?

[@georgesciriha7497]

Excellent clip on the importance of Malta in WWII.

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Thank you. Really enjoyed learning about it!

[@Amileo350]

We visited these and it is well worth taking the guided tour, the rooms were operated predominately by the RAF from 1940 and the RAF sector fighter control room would not have had a general overseeing the operations in there. 53 civilian women British and Maltese were employed as plotters some as young as 14, ref: book Ladies of Lascaris. Not soldiers RAF airmen rest rooms. The Allied HQ generals were overseeing the operation Husky in a different room in 1943. Nice to see it again in your video.

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Glad I could bring back a few good memories for you! Thanks for the additional information - very interesting. I really enjoyed visiting the war rooms - what a fascinating place. I'm so glad they have restored it and opened it up as a museum. Such a historically important place.

[@MarkDavidSpiteri]

I've been to all of these locations myself - just want to say that you did an amazing job with this video and with your commentary. Thank you and well done!

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Thank you very much Sir, I appreciate you saying. I found all of those places fascinating, none more so than the Lascaris War Rooms - some amazing history right there!

[@johngill7776]

Very interesting and again Matt you put a great video together.look forward to your next video 👍

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Thanks very much John. Much appreciated. I found the war rooms totally fascinating, I learnt a great deal from my visit and I’m always glad when I can pass it on. Thanks again.

[@sachastar768]

Thanks for these malta video's. Love them a lot! will be following you on others journeys!

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Glad you like them! Really enjoyed this trip, so much incredible history and beautiful scenery. Thanks for watching!! 👍

[@karmb]

Such an interesting WW2 well kept place that brings very sad wartime nostalgia but that still needs to be passed on. GRAZZI 🇬🇧🇲🇹🇺🇸🇩🇪🇮🇹

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Yes that’s very true Karm. It’s almost unimaginable what things were actually like back then. A very different place that’s for sure. Glad I was able to learn a thing or two about the what happened there. I was engrossed and didn’t want to leave. Thanks for watching!

[@TheTigerman62]

Interesting video. Thanks 🙏

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Glad you enjoyed it 😃

[@WITYTRAVELS]

That tunnel has so much history! So cool that you got to see the canons fire! Those models look like chocolate - we may be hungry. The war rooms are impressive. Once again you covered so much in Malta! Really enjoyed this series.

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Thank you very much. Hopefully I’ve done Malta justice over the last few months, thoroughly enjoyed my visit! Great to see the war rooms and tunnels - found the experience so interesting and educational, I certainly learnt a lot about Malta’s role in the second would war. Have limited wi-fi at the moment but looking forward to seeing your latest video.

[@WITYTRAVELS]

@@MattWhitingsEurope you isn't definitely done it justice! We have not seen anyone do into this amount of detail on Malta.

[@KATHYSLUITER]

I've really enjoyed these videos. I love the Mediterranean which I've only experienced from Greece.

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Thanks Kathy, really loved Malta. Fantastic island. Thanks for watching! Lots of islands in Greece, another beautiful country.

[@samzerafa3185]

Great video and presentation thank

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Glad you liked it! Thanks for the comment.

[@samzerafa3185]

@MattWhitingsEurope Thanks Matt , l am half Maltese and my father told me a lot about the WW2 siege of Malta and how hw witnessed the aerial dog fights and harbour attacks at Valletta. I recall as a child visiting the site where you showed the guns and the firing of one ! I look forward to seeing the rest of yoyr Maltese videos and keep them comming!

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Thanks again, very kind of you! Fascinating that your father experienced those brutal times, I can't even imagine how frightening it would have been to live through it. We really have got it good these days compared to what people like your father went through. Hope you like the rest of my Malta videos, I thoroughly enjoyed my trip out there and remember being amazed by just how much there is to see and do on such a small island. Incredible place!

[@thudor1]

Wow! Almost everything looks like it's made of Maltese limestone blocks.

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Yes it's a spectacle to see isn't it. Fascinating place and I loved learning about the history.

[@davidalan7]

great job! what camera did you use for this?

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Thank you. I used a Canon G7X Mark II to film it. These days I use a Sony ZV1 which is similar but has some updated features. Hope that helps.

[@WhenAdventureKnox]

Wow, wow, wow. Yes, not as cheap as a lot of other entrances in your previous Malta videos, but fascinating and well worth it (well I would say that as I got to see it for free thanks to you 🙏) Created for a very different reason, but if you've not already, I'd highly recommend a visit to the Unterwelten in Berlin - created as underground bunkers for a disaster during the Cold War.

[@MattWhitingsEurope]

Thanks Caroline, glad you enjoyed my little tour of the war rooms. Fascinating place and it was great to learn so much about them. Very sad that my Maltese road trip has come to an end, what a journey! Thanks for the tip about the Unterwelten, I visited Berlin many years ago but unfortunately did not know they were there. I have made a note on my map for when I go back. 👍