Carlo Gimach was a Maltese architect, engineer and poet who was active in the late 17th and early 18th centuries. Throughout his career, he worked in Malta, Portugal and Rome, and he is mostly known for designing Palazzo Carneiro in Valletta, renovating the Monastery of Arouca in Portugal, and restoring the Basilica of St. Anastasia in Rome. He is known to have written a number of poems and other literary works, but these are all lost with the exception of one cantata which he wrote in 1714.
View of Palazzo Carneiro in Valletta, which was designed by Gimach in 1696
Gimach is buried in the Basilica of St Anastasia, which he had restored in 1721–22.
The Auberge de Bavière is a palace in Valletta, Malta. It was built as Palazzo Carneiro in 1696, and it was the residence of Grand Master Marc'Antonio Zondadari in the early 18th century. In 1784, it was converted into the auberge for the Anglo-Bavarian langue of the Order of Saint John, and it remained so until the French occupation of Malta in 1798.
View of Auberge de Bavière
Auberge de Bavière overlooking the English Curtain and the Jews' Sally Port
Plaque on the auberge
Auberge de Bavière et Angleterre in the 1870s