Heritage Sites

06 Feb 2025

White Tower gets low-impact floodlights

White Tower gets low-impact floodlights Project was funded by GasanMamo Insurance Discreet floodlights were on Wednesday evening turned on, illuminating the spectacular White Tower at Aħrax, Mellieħa, thanks to a generous donation from GasanMamo Insurance. The project was complex as the desire to light up the tower’s stunning silhouette had to be balanced against the need to ensure that the night sky and...

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31 May 2024

CHURCH OF SANĊIR, LIMITS OF RABAT

The chapel of Sanċir  is located in the limits of Rabat below Mtarfa  and is one of the very few medieval chapels left in Malta believed to have been built between 1450 and 1500. The chapel, which has an atypical pitched roof, lies in the middle of a magisterial estate known as Ġnien is‑Sultan – which may have contributed to the...

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11 Sep 2023

AUSTRALIAN BUNGALOW

The Australian Bungalow was brought to Malta in the early 1920s to enable prospective Maltese migrants to Australia to adapt themselves to their new environment and to be able to dismantle and rebuild such structures. The British were encouraging the population to migrate to other colonies so that the limited resources of the islands could support the naval base when...

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10 Jul 2022

Delimara Lighthouse, Delimara

THE DELIMARA LIGHTHOUSE   Location A fifteen minute drive away from the Malta International Airport towards Delimara Point, the extreme southern tip of the Maltese archipelago, we find a landmark building that is an important testimony of Malta’s maritime history, the Delimara lighthouse. The road to the lighthouse skirts the picturesque fishing village of Marsaxlokk and many of the beautiful bays and...

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16 Jun 2022

Santa Marija Battery, Comino

THE SANTA MARIJA BATTERY ON COMINO This battery was proposed by the Grand Prior of France, Philippe de Vendôme to protect the south Comino channel in conjunction with the Marfa defences on Gozo and was erected in 1715 at the cost of 1018 scudi. It is one of the three surviving coastal batteries of Gozo and Comino. It had to be...

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15 Jun 2022

Ta’ Braxia Cemetery, Pieta

This cemetery lies close to Portes des Bombes in Floriana, and was opened in 1857 when the group of cemeteries close to the bastions in Floriana were full. One of these cemeteries is now known as the Garden of Rest and is also managed by Din l-Art Helwa. The Ta’ Braxia cemetery was designed by Emanuele Luigi Galizia who was only...

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06 Jun 2022

Historic Garden, Floriana

The cemetery is on the site of the part of the Msida Bastions which were erected in the seventeenth century in Floriana under the surveillance of the Italian engineer Floriani. It is in the boundaries of the Floriana local council but overlooks Msida across the harbour. when the British started governing the islands in 1800, they started to bury their...

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10 May 2022

Chapel of St Roque, Zebbug

Open first Sundays of the month and by appointment. In 1592 the first bubonic plague epidemic hit the Maltese Islands, probably brought over by the galleys of the Grand Duke of Tuscany. About 3000 people died of this severe disease and a certain Tumas Vassallo and his wife Katarin initiated the building of this chapel the same year. St Roque is...

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06 May 2022

St. John the Evangelist chapel, Hal Millieri, Zurrieq

In addition to the well documented chapel of the Annunciation and its abutting ruin of the Visitation, the lost medieval hamlet of Hal Millieri, in the outskirts of present-day Zurrieq, had two other chapels. One of these chapels was dedicated to the martyrdom of St John the Evangelist whose feast was held on 6th May, and the other to the...

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