Michele Cachia

Michele Cachia (; 30 September 1760 – 24 January 1839) was a Maltese architect and military engineer. He is also known for his role during the Maltese uprising of 1798–1800.

Life Michele Cachia was born on 30 September 1760 in the town of Żejtun, and grew up in a townhouse located at 11, Licata Street. He was the cousin of Antonio Cachia, another architect and engineer. In April 1784, he applied for the post of perito agrimensore. Like his father and grandfather, Cachia also worked in the construction of the Żejtun Parish Church.

Between 1801 and 1821, Cachia lived in Floriana, a suburb of the capital Valletta. The church had been built in the 18th century to designs of Andrea Belli.

Cachia had a collection of notebooks containing personal notes about property in Valletta. 217 notebooks which contain information about the city in the late 18th and early 19th centuries have survived, and 211 of these were in the personal archive of architect André Zammit after he had discovered them in a house in Lija in around 1990. After Zammit's death in 2020, his family donated the collection of manuscripts including Cachia's work to the National Archives of Malta in 2022.