3D print St John's Co-Cathedral
A free, printable model of St John's Co-Cathedral with its two bell towers, and the tightly packed buildings around it in Valletta, generated from real map data in your browser.
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- On a 160 mm print
- 10 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
10 mm tall on a 160 mm print
Make this print opens the generator on a 600 m square around the landmark. Buildings print at close to true scale, so the landmark grows with the print size.
- Bell towers with small crosses
Each bell tower has open arches and a small cross on top. Print friendly adapts these small parts to the print scale; slow printing and layers of 0.12 to 0.16 mm help the tops stay crisp.
- A ridged roof and slanted ribs
The long nave roof has fine parallel ridges, and slanted ribs run along its sides. Full detail keeps them, which suits a larger print or a fine nozzle.
- One piece with the ground
St John's Co-Cathedral is joined to the ground in the exported file, and the four-side check found no floating parts, so nothing needs gluing.
- Pick the detail for your nozzle
In the Buildings settings, set Landmark detail to Print friendly to adapt thin parts and small details to the print scale. Full detail keeps every modeled feature, for larger prints or a finer nozzle.
- Colors
Buildings, roads, water and ground arrive as separate filament slots in the 3MF. St John's Co-Cathedral takes the building color.
- File format
You get a 3MF for Bambu Studio, OrcaSlicer or PrusaSlicer. Any of them can save it as STL if you need one.
About St John's Co-Cathedral
St John's Co-Cathedral, in Valletta, Malta, is a Catholic co-cathedral and is dedicated to Saint John the Baptist. The Order of St. John began building it in 1573, after Grand Master Jean de la Cassière commissioned it as the Order's Conventual Church of Saint John. Girolamo Cassar, a Maltese architect, designed the church; he also designed several of Valletta's more prominent buildings. During the 1820s Malta's bishop was permitted to use it as an alternative see, and it formally became a co-cathedral.
The exterior follows the Mannerist manner typical of Cassar. The facade is plain yet well proportioned, framed by two large bell towers. Doric columns flank the doorway and hold up an open balcony; the Grand Master used to speak to the people from it on important occasions. The exterior looks austere, like a fortress, which reflects Cassar's work as a military engineer and the mood of the Order after the Great Siege of 1565.
The interior is extremely ornate and in sharp contrast to the facade. Mattia Preti, an artist from Calabria and a knight, decorated it largely during the peak of the Baroque period. He designed the elaborate carved stone walls and painted scenes showing John the Baptist's life on the vaulted ceiling and the side altars. The carving was done in place rather than carved separately and attached, and the Maltese limestone of the cathedral suits such work. Its marble floor is a series of tombs holding around 400 knights and officers belonging to the Order.
About this model
St John's Co-Cathedral is one of more than 4,300 landmark models in Mini Skyline. They are made with AI, and each one is checked from four sides in its real surroundings before release. Everything around it is built from OpenStreetMap and Overture map data. If you would rather print the shape from map data, turn off Landmark models in the Buildings settings.
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