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Valletta

A city built by knights in fifteen years – and Europe's smallest capital.

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Valletta fits on one rocky peninsula: straight streets, honey-coloured palaces and the sea at the end of every road.

Museen in Valletta

Werfen Sie einen Blick hinein und zahlen Sie Ihren Eintritt dann direkt an das Museum.

Die Geschichte von Valletta

After the Great Siege of 1565, Grandmaster Jean de Valette laid the first stone of a new city that could never be taken again. Its streets were drawn in a grid so the sea wind could cool them, and the knights built their auberges, hospitals and St John's Co-Cathedral within a few years. Today the whole city is a UNESCO World Heritage site. Go early to St John's, then to MUŻA for Maltese art, to the Grandmaster's Palace for the armoury and to Fort St Elmo for the National War Museum. Have pastizzi and a Kinnie on a step, or a ftira from a small bar, and watch the noon gun from the Upper Barrakka Gardens. On summer nights Valletta's own festas and the Notte Bianca in autumn fill the streets with music; at Carnival, in late winter, floats roll down Republic Street.

  • 1566Valletta is founded after the Great Siege
  • 0.6 km²one of the smallest capital cities in Europe
  • 320historic buildings and monuments inside the walls, says UNESCO

Valletta im Lauf der Zeit

Die großen Momente und wo Sie sie heute sehen.

  1. 1566Jean de Valette lays the first stone of the new city.Ansehen: National War Museum →
  2. 1578St John's, the knights' conventual church, is consecrated.Ansehen: St John's Co-Cathedral
  3. 1942Bombs hit the Royal Opera House; its ruins are now an open-air theatre, Pjazza Teatru Rjal.Ansehen: Lascaris War Rooms

Was man in Valletta erleben kann

  1. 01

    St John's Co-Cathedral

    Caravaggio's Beheading of Saint John and a floor of marble knights' tombs.

    Valletta1 to 2 hours
  2. 02

    MUŻA

    Malta's national art museum in the Auberge d'Italie.

    Valletta1 to 2 hours
  3. 03

    National War Museum →

    At Fort St Elmo, from the Great Siege to the George Cross.

    Valletta2 hours
  4. 04

    Grandmaster's Palace

    State rooms and one of the world's great collections of armour.

    Valletta1 hour
  5. 05

    Casa Rocca Piccola →

    A noble family's home with a wartime shelter under the house.

    Valletta1 hour
Anreise

Anreise nach Valletta

Vom Flughafen mit öffentlichen Verkehrsmitteln ins Stadtzentrum, dann mit Zügen und Nahverkehr zu den Museen.

Anreise mit dem Flugzeug

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Malta InternationalValletta · Birgu · Mdina · Rabat

Unterwegs in Valletta

Linien und Fahrpläne ändern sich. Prüfen Sie vor der Fahrt die Website des Verkehrsbetriebs.

Auf der Karte

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Verborgene Geschichte

The street that is a staircase

Some of Valletta's streets are not streets at all – they are stairs.

Geschichte lesenSchließen

The peninsula is steep, so many side streets climb in long, shallow steps. They were made low and wide so that knights in heavy armour could walk up them easily. Today they are the most photographed streets in Malta, with coloured wooden balconies, the gallariji, hanging over them.