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Knights of Malta

Posted on 2008/05/24 23:11:27 (May 2008).

[Tuesday 20th - Thursday 22nd May 2008]

Finally I am starting to pick up a little pace at work, nothing major, but some appointments are showing up. One of them was in Malta, and here is a brief account of what I have done there for half a day that I had free before taking the flight back to Italy.

The island is quite beautiful, it reminded me a lot of Greece, but everyone speaks either Italian or English perfectly (on the top of the local language that is very similar to Arab, in terms of sound at least). The country is a huge mix of Italian, British, Greek and North African cultures, thus it's extremely interesting. It seems that they took only the best part of all these cultures and this is quite good of course. I am sure that there are many more problems but on the surface, but I couldn't really see them.

The weather was glorious and on the half day free that I had I managed to go to La Valletta so see the main attraction which is St.John's Cathedral.

Truly a masterpiece of baroque art, the cathedral was home to the knights of the order of Malta. The knights were very important and powerful in the middle ages, all of the good things built in Malta apparently belong to them.

I guess that the pictures will give some good impressions. I still think that there is a lot more to see, but only half a day was all I was given this time!

Comment 1

Ah, great photos. Lox!! Were you allowed to take photos in the cathedral without paying a "tax"?? Love the bus - I can be a bit of an "anorak" sometimes, when it comes to old vehicles!!! :D

Posted by Nigel at 2008/05/25 13:32:46.

Comment 2

Nigel: Actually all the pictures were taken with no flash, so fortunately the people watching around did not see anything... :P As for the bus they are really cool!

Posted by Lox at 2008/05/25 18:30:39.

Comment 3

Blimey - Malta looks very nice doesn't it? It's not a place I've ever given much thought before, but since you were there I went and looked for it on Google Maps. Small, isn't it?