Malta's tiny fortified capital, built by the Knights of St John in the 16th century, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. St John's Co-Cathedral has a plain exterior but a breathtaking gilded baroque interior, with Caravaggio's Beheading of St John. See the Grandmaster's Palace and the Upper Barrakka Gardens, with the saluting battery firing at noon over the Grand Harbour.
Take a traditional dgħajsa boat or ferry across to the Three Cities. Visit the underground Lascaris War Rooms.
Birgu (Vittoriosa), Senglea and Cospicua, the three fortified towns across the Grand Harbour from Valletta, where the Knights of St John first settled.
An underground Neolithic burial complex carved into the rock around 4000 BC, with chambers on three levels, some painted with red ochre spirals.
A fishing village in south-east Malta with a harbour full of colourful traditional boats (luzzu), painted with the protective 'Eye of Osiris' on the …
Malta's old capital, a walled medieval city on a hill, called the 'Silent City', with narrow, quiet streets of noble palaces and the baroque St Paul'…
Sheer cliffs on Malta's south-west coast rising about 250 m above the sea, the highest point of the island, with views to the islet of Filfla.
A shallow, intensely turquoise bay of white sand between the small island of Comino and the islet of Cominotto, one of the most beautiful swimming sp…
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