sentences:  The first stone for a new fort, Fort Saint Michael, was laid down on 8 May 1552 on "l'Isola", a peninsula adjacent to the Order's capital at Birgu.Meanwhile Fort Saint Elmo began to be built on the Sciberras peninsula, a much larger peninsula facing both Birgu and Isola (on which the city of Valletta and the town of Floriana were later built).De Homedes died on 6 September 1553 and was succeeded by Claude de la Sengle as Grandmaster, who continued the fortification work started by de Homedes.