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Port Region

Valletta, the Three Cities and the Grand Harbour – Malta's story in one view.

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Around the Grand Harbour, two thousand years of sea power meet: the knights' capital on one side, the fortified Three Cities on the other.

Musées à Port Region

Jetez un œil, puis payez votre entrée directement au musée.

Lieux en Port Region

★ A sa propre histoire de ville

L’histoire de Port Region

Start in Valletta at St John's Co-Cathedral, plain outside and golden inside, with Caravaggio's Beheading of Saint John. The Grandmaster's Palace shows the knights' armoury, and MUŻA, the national art museum, tells Malta's story through paintings. Fort St Elmo, at the tip of the peninsula, holds the National War Museum and the George Cross the whole island received in 1942. Take the small dgħajsa boat across the harbour to Birgu, where the knights first lived: the Inquisitor's Palace and the Malta at War Museum tell very different stories. Eat a ftira or pastizzi on the waterfront and stay for sunset from the Upper Barrakka Gardens, where the Saluting Battery fires a cannon every noon and at four. In summer every parish holds its festa; on Good Friday the processions walk through Birgu and Valletta.

  • 1566first stone of Valletta, laid by Grandmaster Jean de Valette
  • 1980Valletta joins the UNESCO World Heritage list
  • 3fortified towns across the harbour: Birgu, Senglea and Cospicua

Port Region à travers le temps

Les grands moments, et où les voir aujourd’hui.

  1. 1565The knights hold Fort St Angelo and Birgu through the Great Siege.À voir: Fort St Angelo
  2. 1608Caravaggio signs his only signed painting, in the oratory of the cathedral.À voir: St John's Co-Cathedral
  3. 1942King George VI awards the George Cross to the island of Malta.À voir: National War Museum →

Que faire à Port Region

  1. 01

    St John's Co-Cathedral

    Marble tombs of knights on the floor and two Caravaggios in the oratory.

    Valletta1 to 2 hours
  2. 02

    MUŻA

    Malta's national art museum, from the knights to today, in an old auberge.

    Valletta1 to 2 hours
  3. 03

    National War Museum →

    At Fort St Elmo: the Great Siege, the Second World War and the George Cross.

    Valletta2 hours
  4. 04

    Inquisitor's Palace

    The rooms, courts and cells of the Inquisition in Birgu.

    Birgu1 hour
  5. 05

    Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum

    The 5,000-year-old underground temple and burial place – book well ahead.

    Paola1 hour
Comment y aller

Venir à Port Region

De l’aéroport au centre-ville en transports en commun, puis les trains et les lignes locales jusqu’aux musées.

Arriver en avion

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Histoire cachée

The noon gun

Every day at noon, a cannon fires over the Grand Harbour – as it has since the British days.

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From the Upper Barrakka Gardens you can watch gunners in old uniforms load and fire a cannon of the Saluting Battery at noon and again at four in the afternoon. The battery once gave the time to ships in the harbour and greeted visiting fleets. Today the echo still rolls across the water to the Three Cities.