page_title: Girolamo Cassar
section_title: Buildings attributed to Cassar
hierarchical_section_title: Girolamo Cassar / Buildings attributed to Cassar
caption_attribution_description: English: Church of St. Mark or of the Augustinians, Rabat, Malta Italiano: Chiesa di San Marco o degli Agostiniani, Rabat, Malta
context_page_description: Girolamo Cassar was a Maltese architect and military engineer. He was the resident engineer of the Order of St. John, and was admitted into the Order in 1569. He was involved in the construction of Valletta, initially as an assistant to Francesco Laparelli, before taking over the project himself. He designed many public, religious and private buildings in the new capital city, including Saint John's Co-Cathedral, the Grandmaster's Palace and the auberges. He was the father of Vittorio Cassar, another architect and engineer.
context_section_description: The following is a list of buildings which are known to have been designed by Girolamo Cassar or are attributed to him:
  Valletta
  Fortifications of Valletta (1566 onwards; with Francesco Laparelli)
  Church of Our Lady of Victory (1566–67)
  House of Fra Eustachio del Monte (1569)
  First Auberge de France (c. 1570)
  Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (c. 1570)
  First Auberge d'Italie (1570–71)
  Auberge d'Aragon (1571)
  Auberge d'Allemagne (1571–75)
  Auberge d'Auvergne (c. 1571–83)
  Auberge de Provence (1571–75)
  Church of St. Dominic (1571)
  Church of St. Augustine (1571–96)
  Church of St. Mary of Jesus and adjoining convent (1571–75)
  Saint John's Co-Cathedral (1572–77)
  Auberge de Castille (1573–74)
  Second Auberge d'Italie (1574–79)
  Grandmaster's Palace (1574)
  Sacra Infermeria (1574)
  Church of St. Catherine of Italy (1576)
  Monastery of St. Catherine (1576)
  Carmelite convent (1576)
  Church of St. Paul's Shipwreck (1577–82)
  Bakery (c. 1584)
  Second Auberge de France (c. 1588)
  Del Soccorso Chapel in Fort Saint Elmo
  Windmills
  Elsewhere in Malta
  Reconstruction of Birgu and Senglea (1560s)
  Church of St. Mark, Rabat (1571–88)
  Verdala Palace (1586)
  Old convent of St. Augustine, Rabat (1588)
  Old convent of St. Francis, Rabat (1588)
  Capuchin convent, Floriana (1586)
caption: Church of St. Mark in Rabat
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