Malta Map of Malta
7th May 2015 All photos by Hetty
Valletta was built on a rocky peninsula between two harbours in the 16th century, and became the capital city of Malta.
On the other side of the Grand Harbour are the Three Cities.
Triton Fountain by the Valletta bus station
The city walls are huge
The Upper Barracca Gardens
The Grand Harbour
We’ll catch a ferry and walk around the Senglea peninsula
The easiest way down to the harbour is the lift down the bastion
Looking back to Valletta and the huge lift
Views from a bridge at Cospicua
Senglea – all these cities are fortified
Looking towards Valletta
Gardens at the end of the Senglea peninsula – a good place for a picnic
Looking across to Vittoriosa
Looking towards Senglea from Cospicua
Next we walked around the Vittoriosa peninsula. St Lawrence, the Parish Church, 17th century
Maritime museum, in the former Naval Bakery
The Kalkara Creek
Ancient and modern
Back at the entrance to the city
Fort St Angelo, at the end of the Vittoriosa peninsula from the ferry
Back in Valletta
The statue of a fallen soldier at the Great Siege Memorial
Lower Barracca Gardens, where there are chickens
and a monument to Sir Alexander Ball, first British Governor of Malta, who came from Stroud
The entrance to the Grand Harbour
Marsamxett harbour
Lots of Maltese balconies
St George’s Square
There are red phone and post boxes all over Malta, and cars drive on the left
