A new word introduced into the Maltese vocabulary
Heritage Malta is extending its discount scheme this month while introducing new combo tickets and marking Valentine’s Day with a special offer. The 50 per cent discount on the Multi-site Ticket will remain in effect until the end of February.
A windmill in Xewkija has been restored after years of neglect, in a €500,000 project. The windmill, which dates back to the 1700s, has been fitted with new electricity, plumbing and sanitary facilities as well as historic items related to its former...
Superintendence of Cultural Heritage strongly opposes plans for Villa Buleben
Making historical sites relevant to communities
Heritage Malta, ERA, cultural watchdog and NGOs all oppose sanctioning plans
If you stroll alone in the quieter parts of Rabat and Mdina and let your mind wander, you just might hear the echoes of an angry throng assaulting a French officer in revenge for the looting of gold and silverware from our churches or the screams of...
Abandoned fishing net was obstructing the heritage site
A detailed look at two days of heavy bombings in 1941, which left many dead and wounded. By the end of 1940, Malta had not yet surrendered to Italian forces and the latter were also to experience two major reverses in Greece and Egypt. On November 20...
Gruesome tales involving Mdina and Rabat will be recounted in a webinar by Heritage Malta on January 26. A virtual tour during this webinar will wander down murky alleyways and dark catacombs but also inside grand palaces and beautiful churches, each...
Maltese language department prepares website mapping out dialects
Buses operating as part of classic vintage tours from Valletta to St Julian’s
Post-COVID-19, museums can provide a space away from the constant online bombard
National bands festival to be organised
Heritage Malta voucher scheme extended
The Msida Bastion Historic Garden warden, Paolo Ferrelli, will be leading tours around the cemetery throughout the month of January. During the tours, he will share interesting stories featuring duels, suicides, murders and heroism, and give historical...
The National Museum of Natural History will reopen on January 9. Heritage Malta said on Monday that the museum was closed to the public for the past months because of extensive structural and embellishment works. Meanwhile, throughout January, Heritage...
40 years ago, the Gozitan temple complex became a world heritage site
A 3D model of the villa will help researchers return it to its former glory
Machinery seen tearing through archaeologically sensitive rural building
They have not been publicly exhibited since 1995
Heritage Malta’s Education and Outreach Department is organising a webinar titled ‘A Wartime Christmas Dinner’ tomorrow, December 22. Aimed at those aged 10 and over, the webinar offers a unique opportunity to get a taste of how Christmas was...
"Our work to maintain the prestige of ftira has only just begun" food historian
A soft snow fell as a clutch of visitors equipped with a Geiger counter wandered through the ghostly Ukrainian town of Pripyat, frozen in time since the world's worst nuclear accident in 1986. More than three decades after the Chernobyl nuclear...
Heritage Malta’s student passport scheme has been extended to include St John’s Co-Cathedral in Valletta. This follows the signing, last July, of a memorandum of understanding detailing a collaboration between Heritage Malta and the St John’s...
Five churches receive around €100,000 each
€100,000 budgeted for monument to be unveiled in November 2021
With sloppy restoration work and damaged or disfigured historical monuments, experts say a race for profits, ideological considerations and favouritism are leaving sensitive upkeep of cultural heritage by the wayside in Turkey. In August the Galata...
Traditional transport vessels were in use as early as 1520
Heritage Malta walk along the streets of Qrendi reveals unique sites, features
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