The remaining part of the garden was destroyed in the 20th century, and its site is now occupied by social housing blocks.

The demi-bastion was too high to offer adequate defence, so in the early 17th century the rocky shore below it was reshaped into a faussebraye (or tenaille) with a rock-hewn ditch stretching from the bastion to the Del Monte Gate.

[5] Soon after the rampart was completed, Grand Master Lascaris requisitioned the site and built a summer residence with a garden there.

[6][7][8] The garden became the focal point of the Valletta Marina, which also included the Church of Our Lady of Liesse, Neptune's Fountain and the Del Monte Gate.

The lower part of a staircase which led to the Grand Master's summer residence can still be seen at the base of Lascaris Battery.