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City Centre St. Paul's Bay
Qawra
~1.10 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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City Centre Mellieha
Mellieha
~1.36 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Golden Sands Beach
Golden Bay
~2.59 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Sweethaven Village
Mellieha
~2.61 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Popeye Village, also known as Sweethaven Village, is a group of rustic and ramshackle wooden buildings located at Anchor Bay in the north-west corner of the Mediterranean island of Malta, two miles from the village of Mellieha.It was built as a film set for the production of the 1980 live-action musical feature film Popeye, produced by Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions and starring Robin Williams. Today it is open to the public as an open-air museum and family entertainment complex.
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Gnejna Bay
Golden Bay
~2.82 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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This is the third sandy beach, together with Ghajn Tuffieha and Golden Bay, to be found on the north-west side of Malta. Even though Gnejna Bay is only a kilometre of coastal walk away from Ghajn Tuffieha, there is no interconnecting road and so they are around a twenty minute drive away via Mgarr.Gnejna Bay is probably the least pretty of the three bays but it usually offers more space to lay your towel and stretch your legs in the height of summer as it is not as well known by tourists. The beach offers good clean sand and is of a decent size. A flat rock on the right hand side of the sandy beach is used by bathers less keen on sand during the day, and in the evening usual turns into a small party location for well equipped (generators and all) Maltese families.The hidden right h...
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Rotunda (Church of St. Mary's)
Malta
~3.64 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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The Rotunda (or Church of St. Mary) is a magnificent domed church in Mosta, central Malta.HistoryDedicated to the Assumption of the Virgin Mary and built between the 1830s and 1860s, the Rotunda was designed by Maltese architect Giorgio de Vasse. In a rather revolutionary move, the church was built over and around the existing one, which was then demolished.In 1942 during World War II, the church took a direct hit from a German bomb while more than 300 people were congregated inside for Mass. The bomb pierced the dome and fell to the ground with a bounce, but failed to explode.The army took the bomb outside and diffused it, and no one was hurt. The event has become legendary, with many regarding it as a miracle. A replica of the 200kg bomb can be seen in the sacristy.Wh...
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Mediterraneo Marine Park
Malta
~4.02 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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St. Paul's Cathedral
Mdina
~4.62 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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St. Paul's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Mdina, in Malta. It is built on the site where governor Publius was reported to have met Saint Paul following his shipwreck off the Maltese coast.According to tradition, the first Cathedral of Malta was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God but, having fallen into ruin during the Muslim period, it was rebuilt following the Norman conquest and re-dedicated to St Paul. The old church was modified and enlarged several times.The building we can see today was designed by the architect Lorenzo Gafa, it was built between 1697 and 1702 to replace a ruined Norman cathedral destroyed by the 1693 earthquake on Malta. Despite this, several artifacts and edifices survived including the painting by the Calabrian artist Matt...
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Catacombs of St. Paul and St. Agatha's Crypt
Mdina
~4.90 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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The Catacombs of St. Paul are not themselves associated with Paul but derive their name from their proximity to St. Paul's Church and Grotto. They are a fascinating labyrinth of 3rd-century AD subterranean tombs and the earliest archaeological evidence of Christianity in Malta.St. Paul's Catacombs incorporates tombs for more than 1,000 bodies in 2,200 square meters. Not all of the site is accessible, but enough is open to the public to provide a fascinating look at several different types of tombs.The few surviving murals, although fragmentary, are important since they constitute the only surviving evidence on Malta of painting from this period.At the bottom of steep steps, seven meters into the catacombs, are two striking rooms divided by a central pillar.The main crypt, o...
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St. Paul's Church
Mdina
~4.91 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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St. Paul's Cathedral is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the city of Mdina, in Malta. It is built on the site where governor Publius was reported to have met Saint Paul following his shipwreck off the Maltese coast.According to tradition, the first Cathedral of Malta was dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, Mother of God but, having fallen into ruin during the Muslim period, it was rebuilt following the Norman conquest and re-dedicated to St Paul. The old church was modified and enlarged several times.The building we can see today was designed by the architect Lorenzo Gafa, it was built between 1697 and 1702 to replace a ruined Norman cathedral destroyed by the 1693 earthquake on Malta. Despite this, several artifacts and edifices survived including the painting by the Calabrian artist Matt...
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Blue Lagoon
Gozo
~5.61 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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On Comino are the sheltered, dazzlingly blue waters of this small inlet, which has appeared on screen many times, most recently for a diving scene featuring Madonna in Swept Away and a spearfishing scene set in ancient times for the mini-series Helen of Troy. Boat trips from Gozo and Malta to Comino enable you to take a dip in the lagoon. Also on Comino is St Mary’s Tower, which is featured in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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Starfish Diving
St. Julian's
~5.99 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Starfish Diving School offers Scuba Diving services across the Maltese archipelago. Located virtually at the centre of the Mediterranean Sea it consists of three larger islands: Malta, Gozo and Comino. The waters here are known to be the most limpid and clear in the world and are ideal for scuba diving with excellent visibility down to 30- 40 meters. All the three Islands offer unique diving experience with reefs, caves and wrecks. Starfish Diving School is situated at beautiful 5 stars beach resorts: Marina Hotel at the Corinthia Beach Resort, Corinthia San Gorg and Radisson SAS Bay Point in St.Julian’s and is easily accessible from relatively every area of the Islands. St.Julian's was originally a quaint fishing village built around a small bay. Nowadays St. Julian’s is a ...
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City Centre St. Julian's
St. Julian's
~6.17 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Clapham Junction and Caves
Malta
~7.16 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Clapham Junction is a strange site, unique to Malta. It comprises a number of deep ruts worn into the limestone pavement and belived to date from the stone age. The ruts are known as "cart tracks" although whether they were worn by sledges or something else remains a mystery. Clapham Junction is just the biggest and most famous of a number of sites on Malta where similar ruts have been found. In some places the ruts even run over the edge of cliffs - which have cleary eroded closer in the intervening millenia.
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Manoel Theatre
Valletta
~7.88 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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The Manoel Theatre (Teatru Manoel, in Maltese) is reputed to be Europe's third-oldest working theatre, and the oldest working theatre in the Commonwealth of Nations. Located on Old Theatre Street (Triq it-Teatru l-Antik) in Valletta, it is now Malta's National Theatre and home to the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra (Orkestra Filarmonika Nazzjonali).The Manoel Theatre is a small, six-hundred and twenty-three seat venue, with a lavish, oval-shaped auditorium, three tiers of boxes constructed entirely of wood and decorated with 22-carat gold leaf, and a pale blue, trompe-l'oeil ceiling that resembles a round cupola.Hidden behind an austere facade that is fully in keeping with Valletta's Mannerist architecture, is a richly adorned, glorious Rococo interior. Despite numerous alterations ov...
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National Museum of Archaeology
Valletta
~7.90 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Museum of Archaeology in Valletta, Malta, displays an exceptional array of artifacts from Malta’s unique prehistoric periods,[1] starting with the first arrival of humans in the Ghar Dalam phase (5200 BCE).The collection is housed in the Auberge de Provence, one of the first buildings to be erected in Valletta after the Great Siege in the late 16th century. It was originally a palace, used by the Knights of Malta.Mother figurines from Hagar Qim on display at the museumMalta is very rich in archaeological artifacts. The ground floor of the museum is related to the prehistory of the Maltese Islands.Several temporary exhibitions are set up in the Archaeology Museum. The most notable temporary exhibitions are: the Coinage of the Crusades, the Maltese Clocks.
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City Centre Valleta
Grand Harbour
~7.97 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Great Seige of Malta and the Knights of St. John
Valletta
~7.97 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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At the end of 1522, the Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent had forcibly ejected the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St. John of Jerusalem from their base on Rhodes after a six-month siege. Between 1523 and 1530, the Order lacked a permanent home. They became known as the Knights of Malta when, on 26 October, 1530, Philippe Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, Grand Master of the Knights, sailed into Malta's Grand Harbour with a number of his followers to lay claim to Malta and Gozo, which had been granted to them by Holy Roman Emperor Charles V[2] in return for one falcon sent annually to the Viceroy of Sicily and a solemn mass to be celebrated on All Saints Day. Charles also required the Knights to garrison Tripoli on the North African coast, which was in territory that the Barbary corsairs,...
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St. Johns Co Cathedral
Valletta
~7.98 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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St. Johns Co-Cathedral (Maltese: Kon-Katidral ta’ San Gwann), located in Valletta, Malta, was built by the Knights of Malta between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned in 1572 by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the conventual church of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St John, known as the Knights of Malta. The Church was designed by the Maltese military architect Glormu Cassar who designed several of the more prominent buildings in Valletta.
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Grand Masters Palace
Valletta
~7.99 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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The Grandmaster's Palace is a palace in Valletta, Malta, currently housing the House of Representatives of Malta and the office of the President of Malta.The site had been previously occupied by Eustachio del Monte, a nephew of La Valette. The Knights of Malta bought the house and commissioned Gerolamo Cassar to design a palace. In the 18th-century, traveller Patrick Brydone noted that 'the Grand Master (who studies conveniency more than magnificence) is more comfortably and commodiously, lodged than any prince in Europe, the King of Sardenia perhaps only excepted'.The palace is built around two courtyards, one of which is dominated by a statue of Neptune. There are two entrances in the front and one entrance from Piazza Regina just west of the National Library. The entrance to the...
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Church of St. Paul the Shipwrecked
Valletta
~8.03 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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On the same side of Paul Street as the University of Malta, beyond the Market, is the Church of St Paul Shipwrecked, with a sumptuous interior containing a fine altar-piece depicting the shipwreck by Paladini (1544-1614). beyond the Market, is the Church of St Paul Shipwrecked, with a sumptuous interior containing a fine altar-piece depicting the shipwreck by Paladini (1544-1614).Cassar originally built this church but it has been remodeled and redecorated twice since. As befits a building dedicated to one of Malta's patron saints, it is lavish, and it houses some venerated possessions. The plan is a Latin Cross, the dome elliptical and the floor tessellated. The wooden gilded statue of St Paul is by Melchiorre Gafa and is ... More >Hobbies & Activities category: Christian sites; Pa...
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St Johns Museum
Grand Harbour
~8.05 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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St. Johns Co-Cathedral (Maltese: Kon-Katidral ta’ San Gwann), located in Valletta, Malta, was built by the Knights of Malta between 1573 and 1578, having been commissioned in 1572 by Grand Master Jean de la Cassière as the conventual church of the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of St John, known as the Knights of Malta. The Church was designed by the Maltese military architect Glormu Cassar who designed several of the more prominent buildings in Valletta.
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Casa Rocca Piccola
Valletta
~8.05 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Casa Rocca Piccola is the lived-in home of the de Piro family, an ancient Maltese lineage. The history of Casa Rocca Piccola goes back over 400 years to an era in which the Knights of St John, having successfully fought off the invading Turks in 1565, decided to build themselves a prestigious city to rival other European capitals (such as Paris and Venice). Palaces were designed for prestige and aesthetic beauty in most of Valletta’s carefully planned streets, and great bastion walls fortified the new sixteenth-century city.
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Knights Spectacular 1565
Valletta
~8.13 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Attraction type: Dinner theaterinfo@mkleisure.comAddress: Montekristo Estate, Hal Farrug Road (formerly The Knights of Malta 1565) Valletta, Island of Malta LQA 3078 MaltaTel: 35699991565
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Fort St. Elmo
Valletta
~8.14 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Fort Saint Elmo is a fortification in Valletta, Malta. It stands on the seaward shore of the Sciberras Peninsula that divides Marsamxett Harbour from Grand Harbour, and commands the entrances to both harbours.Prior to the arrival of the Knights of Malta in 1530, a watchtower existed on this point. Reinforcement of this strategic site commenced in 1533. By the time of the Ottoman Siege of Malta in 1565, this fortification had been reinforced and extended into a modest star fort.Fort Saint Elmo was the scene of some of the most intense fighting of the siege, and it withstood massive bombardment from Turkish cannon deployed on Mount Sciberras that overlooked the fort and from batteries on the north arm of Marsamextt Harbour, present site of Fort Tigne. The initial garrison of the fort w...
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Gozo Heliport (GZM)
Gozo
~8.22 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Inquisitor's Palace
Grand Harbour
~8.83 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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The Inquisitor's Palace is a museum in Birgu (Vittoriosa), Malta. The museum is also used for temporary exhibitions, the most notable one being the exhibition of torture instruments brought over from a museum in Italy.The museum is managed by Heritage Malta.
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Ta' Cenc
Gozo
~8.85 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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To relax on a few of Malta's real beaches, following time spent of Sliema's shelves of bare rock, and the views along the north west coast and out to the distant Ta Cenc cliffs on Gozo are all pretty spectacular.
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Tarxien Temples
Grand Harbour
~9.01 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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The Tarxien Temples (Maltese pronunciation: ['tar?i.?n]) are an archaeological complex in Tarxien, Malta. They date back to approximately 2800 BC. The site was accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1980 along with the other Megalithic temples on the island of Malta.The Tarxien consist of three separate, but attached, temple structures. The main entrance is a reconstruction dating from 1956, when the whole site was restored. At the same time, many of the decorated slabs discovered on site were relocated indoors for protection at the Museum of Arcaelogy in Valletta. The first temple has been dated to approximately 3100 BC and is the most elaborately decorated of the temples of Malta. The middle temple dates to about 3000 BC, and is unique in that, unlike the rest of the Maltese templ...
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Mnajdra Megalithic Temples
Malta
~9.07 miles from Xemxija Bay city center
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Mnajdra is a megalithic temple complex found on the southern coast of the Mediterranean island of Malta. Mnajdra is approximately 500 metres from the Hagar Qim megalithic complex. Mnajdra was built around the fourth millennium BCE; the Megalithic Temples of Malta are amongst the most ancient religious sites on Earth, described by the World Heritage Sites committee as "unique architectural masterpieces." In 1992 UNESCO recognized the Mnajdra complex and four other Maltese megalithic structures as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. In 2009 work was completed on a protective tent.
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