Nine of the fourteen public holidays are religious. The other five mark points in Maltese history, and three of those cover the…
Six harbour towns race traditional boats across the Grand Harbour on Victory Day. Watching it costs nothing.
One is the largest canvas he painted and the only one he signed. It still hangs in the room it was made…
St Agatha’s Tower above Mellieħa was finished in 1649 and painted red so the next tower in the chain could see it.
Finished in 1610 on the feast of St Paul, it began the chain of coastal towers that ended up ringing the islands.
The Upper Barrakka Gardens look straight down into the Grand Harbour, and the gun below them fires twice a day.
Pairs of grooves run across the limestone at Clapham Junction, cross each other, and in places head over a cliff.
Eight parishes hold their feast on 15 August, and the same date carries the convoy that kept Malta fed in 1942.
Twelve kilometres of Victorian wall along the Great Fault, from Fomm ir-Riħ to Madliena. Never fought over, still standing, and walkable in…
Birgu or Vittoriosa, Rabat or Victoria. People say one name, the maps and the buses use the other.
Globigerina limestone comes out of the ground soft, hardens in the air and weathers from white to honey to grey.
The air defence of Malta was run from these tunnels, and so was the landing on Sicily in 1943.
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