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Rabat

Catacombs, a Roman house and Saint Paul's grotto outside Mdina's walls.

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Rabat is the busy town just outside Mdina, with underground cemeteries from the first Christians.

Musées à Rabat

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L’histoire de Rabat

Rabat grew outside Mdina's walls, where the Romans kept their villas and cemeteries. Under the town lie long catacombs: St Paul's and St Agatha's, where early Christians buried their dead and shared funeral meals at round tables cut into the rock. The Domvs Romana keeps mosaic floors and marble portraits of a wealthy Roman family. Tradition says Saint Paul stayed in a grotto here after his shipwreck. Rabat is also famous for its pastizzi shops and its Sunday market; in late June the Mnarja festival takes place in nearby Buskett woods.

  • 60 ADSaint Paul's shipwreck on Malta, according to tradition

Rabat à travers le temps

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

  1. 1st century BCA Roman town house is decorated with fine mosaics.À voir: Domvs Romana
  2. 3rd to 5th centuryChristians dig catacombs under Rabat.À voir: St Paul's Catacombs

Que faire à Rabat

  1. 01

    Domvs Romana

    Roman mosaics and portraits in the remains of a town house.

    Rabat1 hour
  2. 02

    St Paul's Catacombs

    More than twenty underground burial places to explore.

    Rabat1 hour
  3. 03

    Wignacourt Museum

    Paintings, a wartime shelter and Saint Paul's grotto underneath.

    Rabat1 hour
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Venir à Rabat

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

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Tables for the dead

In Rabat's catacombs, families ate with their dead.

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Inside the catacombs you find round stone tables with a low bench around them, cut out of the rock. On the anniversary of a death, families came down by lamplight and ate a meal next to the grave, in a Roman custom called the agape. It is one of the few places in Europe where these tables survive.