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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.

Musea in Rabat

Kijk binnen en betaal je entree rechtstreeks aan het museum.

Het verhaal van 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 door de tijd

De grote momenten, en waar je ze vandaag ziet.

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

Wat te doen in 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
Zo kom je er

Op weg naar Rabat

Van het vliegveld naar het centrum met het openbaar vervoer, en daarna de treinen en lokale lijnen naar de musea.

Aankomen met het vliegtuig

MLA
Malta InternationalValletta · Birgu · Mdina · Rabat

Reizen door Rabat

Lijnen en dienstregelingen veranderen. Kijk voor vertrek op de site van de vervoerder.

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Tables for the dead

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

Lees het verhaalSluiten

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.