Holy Week

Valletta’s Republic Street is no stranger to pageantry—band marches, confetti cannons and baroque balconies are practically the capital’s default soundtrack—but even seasoned passers-by slow their step when the wooden cross emerges from St Dominic’s Priory each March. Draped in crimson velvet and carried shoulder-high by barefoot confraternity members, the Holy Crucifix processes through a tunnel…