Malta’s olive harvest starts this month
The olive harvest in Malta runs from late September through autumn. Bidnija, north of Mosta, holds trees believed to be over 2,000…
5 Oct 20261 minRead Malta’s olive harvest starts this month
Villages
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Eighteen village feasts are left this year
Most of the year’s village feasts are over. Eighteen are left, from Mellieħa and Marsa on 27 September to three villages on…
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How to find people who do what you do in Malta
The island runs on clubs. Band clubs, dive schools, walking groups, football nurseries and a hundred village societies, most of them open…
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Malta has four towers over ninety metres
The tallest is 122 metres and was designed by Zaha Hadid. Three of the four stand within a mile of each other…
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What a Maltese village bar is like
Strip lighting, plastic chairs, a television on in the corner and a beer for two euro. Every village has one and visitors…
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Every Maltese village now has a page
Sixty-six village pages are now live, each listing the nearest beaches with distances and shore types, and what sits within a couple…
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The Three Villages are the quiet middle of the island
Attard, Lija and Balzan run into one another, twenty minutes from Valletta and the airport, with San Anton Gardens in the middle.
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Most villages have two band clubs, and they compete
Two clubs, two bands, two sets of colours and one village. The rivalry pays for the fireworks.
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Half the towns here have two names
Birgu or Vittoriosa, Rabat or Victoria. People say one name, the maps and the buses use the other.
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Why every building in Malta is the same colour
Globigerina limestone comes out of the ground soft, hardens in the air and weathers from white to honey to grey.
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The Maltese balcony, and where it came from
The closed wooden balcony is on streets across both islands. Where it came from is still argued over.
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The statues on street corners were the street lights
Niches cut into the corner of a building, with a lamp underneath. Before street lighting that lamp was the light on the…
7 Jun 20262 minRead The statues on street corners were the street lights