Valletta, Malta’s Capital
The Maltese Prime Minister, Edward Fenech-Adami lays flowers at the Independence monument in Floriana at the 30th anniversary of Independence. The bronze and marble Independence monument by Bonnici was inaugurated at the entrance to Il-Mall at Floriana on 21 September 1989 and represents a female figure (an allegory of Malta) striding forward into the unknown as she liberates herself from the shackles of the past (symbolised by the abstracted bands beneath her) whilst tightly holding aloft the national flag in one hand.
Photo by Ludo Kuipers, Wed Sep 21, 1994