Gozo’s International Kite and Wind Festival is on 17 and 18 October
The International Kite and Wind Festival is held in the San Dimitri area of Għarb, Gozo, on 17 and 18 October. Entry…
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Gozo’s two opera houses stage La Traviata and Madama Butterfly this October
Teatru Aurora stages La Traviata on 17 October and Teatru Astra stages Madama Butterfly on 29 and 31 October, both in Victoria,…
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Twelve bays are sheltered from both north winds
Twelve of the 69 bays face no open sea between north west and north east. They are the first to try when…
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The Blue Hole at Dwejra is a shaft in the rock
A natural chimney in the limestone opens through an arch into the open sea. It is the best known dive in Malta…
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Three old Gozo ferries lie in one bay
The Xlendi, the Cominoland and the Karwela were all sunk on purpose off the south coast of Gozo. You can swim between…
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Where to swim in Gozo
Gozo has sixteen bays on this site. The north coast holds the red sand and the swell; the east side stays calm…
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What closed, and what reopened, this month
Gozo has lost its archaeology museum, two more sites are shut, and Fort St Elmo has opened a wing back up.
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What is open in Gozo right now
The archaeology museum is closed, the nature museum is free, and one ticket covers two sites in Xagħra.
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The Gozo ferry is free on the way over
You board at Ċirkewwa without paying and buy the ticket at Mġarr when you leave. A day trip is charged once.
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The first Sunday of the month is the day for towers
Ten coastal watchtowers open to visitors, and nearly all of them share the same one day a month.
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The Cittadella is the whole of Gozo in one view
A walled town on a hill, a twenty minute circuit of the ramparts, and the reason Gozitans slept inside the walls for…
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The salt pans on the Gozo coast still work
Families cut salt out of the rock between Qbajjar and Xwejni every summer, the same way it has been done for centuries.
27 Apr 20262 minRead The salt pans on the Gozo coast still work