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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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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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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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01 Apr 2022

Chapel of Santa Marija ta’ Bir Miftuh

  This chapel was built in around 1430 and is one of the best preserved examples of a fifteenth-century parish church in Malta. It has some interesting frescoes and provides the ideal setting for the annual Bir Miftuh music festival organised each spring by Din l-Art Helwa. Open first Sunday of the month 9.30 – 12.00 hrs, and by appointment. This Chapel located...

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30 Mar 2022

Our Lady of Victory Church, Valletta

In his historical study ‘Descrizione storica delle chiese di Malta e Gozo’ dated 1866, Achille Ferris describes this church in the following manner (in translation): ‘During the ceremony of the laying of the foundation stone of the city of Valletta, which was carried out by Grand Master de Valette on the 28th March, 1566, an altar with a richly ornamented...

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05 Mar 2022

Dwejra Tower, Gozo

THE DWEJRA TOWER, GOZO Location Access to the tower is from a track off the main road to the inland sea. The...

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25 Feb 2022

Santa Marija Tower, Comino

Built in 1618 by Grand Master de Wignacourt, it formed part of a system of towers providing defence and communication between the Cittadella in Gozo and Mdina. The Santa Marija Tower on Comino formed part of the early system of towers which the Order set up to facilitate defence and communication between the Cittadella in Gozo and Mdina. It later became...

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17 Feb 2022

Xutu Tower

HISTORY AND RESTORATION OF TA’ XUTU TOWER The small watch towers guarding the coastline of Malta and Gozo are historic treasures. Most of them were built by the Order of the Knights of St John to strengthen the defence of our islands or to act simply as look-out posts....

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