3D print Triq il-Wiesgħa Tower
A free, printable model of Triq il-Wiesgħa Tower, a small square watchtower with a sloped base, shown with the shoreline and paths around it, generated from real map data in your browser.
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The model you print
Triq il-Wiesgħa Tower in 3D
The landmark on its own, at its size on a 160 mm print. Print friendly thickens thin parts for a 0.4 mm nozzle; Full detail keeps every part.
- On a 160 mm print
- 5 mm
- Scale
- 1:3,750
5 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.
- Thin pole and small turret
The slim pole on the roof is the thinnest part, and the small turret has tiny openings. Print friendly adapts them to the print scale; Full detail keeps them as modeled, best with a larger print.
- Stone courses on a sloped base
The walls show many thin stone courses above a sloped lower section. A larger print size and a 0.12 mm layer height keep these lines crisp.
- One piece with the ground
Triq il-Wiesgħa Tower 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. Triq il-Wiesgħa Tower 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 Triq il-Wiesgħa Tower
Near Żabbar, Malta, Triq il-Wiesgħa Tower (Torri ta' Triq il-Wiesgħa) watches over the coast as a small tower. Its original name was Torre della Giddida, and it is also called Mwejġel Tower. It went up in 1659 along the coast east of the Grand Harbour, number nine among the thirteen De Redin towers. Its name means "Wide Street", a reference to the coastline it had to defend. Like the other De Redin towers, it has a square plan and two stories, topped by a turret.
Santa Maria delle Grazie Tower lay west of it and Żonqor Tower lay east, both in its line of sight, though the British military later demolished them. Fort Leonardo, built on high ground some 350 m (1,150 ft) away during the 1870s, did not have the tower in its line of fire. A tower inside a line of fire would most probably have been demolished, as were Delimara Tower and Bengħisa Tower, to clear the way for their forts.
The tower's rear had fallen in by the early twentieth century, leaving it in ruins, though work in the 1930s restored it. In World War II the parapet and turret were taken off, pillboxes appeared around it, and a crashing aircraft damaged it further. Disrepair returned after the war, with part of the foundations collapsing. Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna received the tower in 2004. Restoration started in September 2008 and finished by March 2009, and it included rebuilding the wartime losses.
About this model
Triq il-Wiesgħa Tower is one of more than 4,900 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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