Many of the old capital’s beautiful sites will double up as art spaces when the Mdina Cathedral Contemporary Art Biennale kicks off today.

Works by leading artists from all over the world, including Nobel Prize winner Dario Fo, will remain hanging in the island’s first capital city until January 7.

This new edition of the Mdina Biennale, with the theme ‘Christianity, spirituality and the other’, takes a different approach to art and religion, and is being hailed as a bridge between different cultures, faiths and even non-faiths.

The new, conceptual direction of the event was developed by artist, art critic and academic Giuseppe Schembri-Bonaci, the artistic director of the Biennale.

The eight-week programme includes musical, literary and audiovisual events.

For more information, go to http:www.mdinabiennale.org. For the venues’ opening hours, see http://mdinabiennale.org/index.php/participation/visitor-info.

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