Fodor's Expert Review Palazzo Parisio

This sprawling palazzo aspires to be a kind of mini Palace of Versailles, with its mirrored ballroom and Italian-style garden. Indeed, taking tea in its walled courtyard feels like the height of civilization as the church bells peal in the distance. The site is run by Christiane Ramsay Scicluna, descendent of the Marquis Guiseppe Scicluna, who set about transforming this building with neoclassical zeal into a grand winter palace when he bought it in 1898. It feels totally out of place in the quiet little town of Naxxar, yet all the more fascinating for it.