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August 9, 2023
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📍Malta International Airport
August 9, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 24 °C
☑️ Once you land, the island is well connected by buses, so I recommend you get the Tallinja Card at the Malta Transport kiosk to be able to take advantage of unlimited buses for 7 days, at a cost of €21Read more
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📍National Aquarium of Malta
August 9, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 26 °C
☑️ Purchase online, on the official website, tickets for the National Aquarium of Malta, located in St. Paul's Bay, at a cost of €12,95. Small but worth it
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📍The San Anton Hotel
Aug 9–15, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 27 °C
☑️ We stayed at "The San Anton Hotel", in Bugibba, St. Paul's Bay
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📍St Paul's Bay
August 9, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
☑️ In the evening we admired the sunset in the beautiful St. Paul's Bay and had dinner at McDonald's
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📍St Julian's
August 9, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
☑️ We then went to St Julian's, the center of nightlife
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📍Popeye Village
August 10, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
☑️ Did you know that the film set of Popeye is in Malta?!?
Popeye Village, also known as Sweethaven Village, was built as a film set for the 1980 musical production "Popeye" produced by Paramount Pictures and Walt Disney Productions.
It is located in Anchor Bay, just 3 kilometers from Mellieha village and was built in 1979.
The village consists of nineteen wooden buildings.
Filming for the musical production began on January 23, 1980.
Today the film set has been transformed into a tourist attraction and is open to the public as an open-air museum and family entertainment complex year-round.
Purchase tickets online, at the price of €23

❌ Sea not very clean, prices for eating a little highRead more
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📍Dinner
August 10, 2023 in Malta ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
☑️ In the evening we had dinner in this magnificent place in Bugibba, in St. Paul's Bay
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📍Malta and Mdina: one day tour
August 11, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 25 °C
☑️ Tourists in Malta!? You absolutely cannot miss this magnificent guided tour to discover the most beautiful places on the island on Get Your Guide... with hotel pick-up service and lunch included!
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📍Step 1 ➡️ San Anton Gardens
August 11, 2023 in Malta
☑️ From 1802 to 1964, San Anton Palace was the official residence of the British governor, after which it remained a state building and is now the residence of the Maltese president.
Various heads of state have visited the gardens over the years, and numerous plaques commemorate the ceremonial planting of the trees.
The garden is a botanical delight with mature trees, old stone urns, fountains, ponds and formal flowerbeds

📣 Great part of the first series of Game of Thrones, which was filmed in some areas of Malta.

A memorable scene was when the sadistic King Geoffrey, to reaffirm his power over the still submissive Sansa Stark, brought the promise bride along the walls of Red Keep to show her the heads of all victims death by decapitation ⚔️Read more
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📍Step 2 ➡️ Dingli Cliffs
August 11, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 28 °C
☑️ The Dingli Cliffs, at the highest point of the island, offer some of the most scenic landscapes in Malta!
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📍Step 3 ➡️ Mdina
August 11, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
☑️ On a hill in the center of the island of Malta stands one of the best preserved fortified cities in Europe: Mdina, the ancient capital of Malta.
Also known as Medina, the "Old City" or the "Silent City" due to the tranquility of its alleys, it has the title of Notable City.
It still retains a monumental appearance, although it is now inhabited by a few hundred people

📣 Malta was a crown colony British, which existed between 1813 and 1964.
It was used as a trading base and as headquarters for the fleet, especially for due to its geographical position in the middle road between Gibraltar and the Isthmus of Suez on the route to the East Indies.
To date, Malta is a Republic, but the driving is left on the left!

Great part of the first series of Game of Thrones, which was filmed in some areas of Malta.

The iconic portal fronted by a honey-colored stone bridge through which Lady Stark also passes on horseback when she joins her husband in King's Landing, is actually the entrance gate to Mdina, the ancient capital of Malta.
The city monument also in others places like Pjazza Mesquita was protagonist of many scenes set in King's Landing ⚔️Read more
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📍Step 4 ➡️ Lunch
August 11, 2023 in Malta
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📍Step 5 ➡️ Rabat and Catacombs
August 11, 2023 in Malta ⋅ ☀️ 29 °C
☑️ The catacombs are the largest among the numerous other types of hypogea present in the area.
The main complex consists of two large halls, with Doric-style pillars upon columns and painted plasterwork that has been worn away by time.
There are also two tables obtained from a single piece of rock, which resemble the reclining beds used in Roman tricliniums.
According to scholars, these artefacts were used to make meals during the anniversary in memory of the deceasedRead more
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Step 6 ➡️ Ta' Qali and Mdina Glass
August 11, 2023 in Malta
☑️ Mdina Glass was founded in 1968 as Malta's first glass manufacturing company using a blend of traditional glass blowing techniques and those of the thriving studio glass movements of the early to mid-1960sRead more
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📍Last Step ➡️ Rotunda Mosta
August 11, 2023 in Malta
☑️ Its dome is, with a diameter of 37 meters, the fourth largest in Europe and the ninth largest in the world.
During the Second World War, during the an afternoon air raid, a 200 kg bomb was dropped by a Luftwaffe aircraft, piercing the dome and falling among more than 300 faithful waiting for the first evening mass; however, the device did not explode!Read more
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📍St Julian's
August 11, 2023 in Malta ⋅ 🌙 25 °C
☑️ Then in the evening we returned to the center of the nightlife
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Trip end
August 15, 2023