tip of the Sciberras Peninsula. The bastion contains several British gun emplacements and magazines. Sir Ralph Abercromby was buried on the bastion. St. Ubaldesca Curtain, also known as Abercrombie's Curtain – a long curtain wall linking St. John and St. Lazarus Bastions. It contains a number of British gun emplacements. Some barrack blocks are located in the area between Upper St. Elmo and the Carafa Enceinte. In popular culture In the historical fiction novel "The Religion", author Tim Willocks gives a fictionalized account of the battle for the fort (during the 1565 Siege of Malta). Lower Saint Elmo was used as a film location for the Turkish jail in the 1978 film Midnight Express. The fort is mentioned in the 1980 thriller novel Man on Fire by A. J. Quinnell. The main character Creasy trained with the AFM inside the fort. Fort Saint Elmo was featured on Maltese stamps in 1980 and 2003, and on a UNESCO stamp in 1981. Popular Maltese folk band Etnika gave three concerts on 31 July, 1 and 2 August 2003 named Bumbum, that drew thousands of revellers to listen to modern Maltese folk music. In the popular real time strategy game released in 2005, Age of Empires III, the first level's task is to defend a fort on Malta against the Ottomans, which appears to be Fort St. Elmo. The first part of the music video of the 2008 song Vodka by the Gozitan singer Morena was filmed at Lower Saint Elmo (the same part of the fort that was used for Midnight Express). The fort plays a key role in the novel Sword and Scimitar by Simon Scarrow. Further reading Matthias Ebejer (2015) The Concept of Martyrdom within Hospitaller Devotional Practices; The fallen at St Elmo as a case study. University of Malta, Institute of Baroque Studies. Besieged Vol 1, Sep 2015. References Notes Further reading Originally a 1568 work by Francesco Balbi di Correggio, translated from old Italian to English. Hughes, Q., Fort 1982 (Fortress Study Group), (10), pp. 71–93 Crowley, Roger, Empires of the Sea 2008, Chapters 9–10 External links National Inventory of the Cultural Property of the Maltese Islands The World Monuments Fund's 2008 Watch listing for Fort St. Elmo 16th-century fortifications Buildings and structures in Valletta Saint Elmo Architecture in Malta Saint Elmo World War II sites in Malta Defunct prisons in Malta Limestone buildings in Malta Military installations