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We traveled 1,652 kilometers from Madrid to find a small archipelago positioned within the Mediterranean Sea south of Sicily and really near the coast of Libya, one of many smallest nations on the earth with greater than 7,000 years of historical past, Malta!
We start our journey by discovering Valletta, which, with solely 0.61 sq. kilometers, is the capital of the nation and has 6,000 inhabitants.
The historical past of Malta is constructed on the colonies which have inhabited this territory because it has been a part of the Spanish and British Empires and was additionally beneath Arab rule.
Its place within the Mediterranean was key at many occasions and, as well as, it was an necessary slave port through the Center Ages.
We attend the cannon shot that takes place every single day at 12 within the morning and at 4 within the afternoon since 1820 and the place quite a few vacationers collect to see it.
One of many locations you can’t miss in your go to to Malta is ‘Popeye’s Village‘a city that was constructed for the filming of the film’Popeye‘, starring Robin Williams in 1980, however when work on the movie was accomplished, it was determined to maintain this stunning set that’s now a well-known thematic half.
Admission to the theme park prices 16 euros and you may stroll round and enter the homes that housed the characters from the well-known ‘Popeye’ comedian, together with the robust sailor who ate spinach.
One other of the crucial and shocking locations is the Templo de Ggantijathe oldest megalithic monument on the earth nonetheless standing, that’s, the oldest human development preserved in the present day.
This temple dates again to three,500 BC and is World Heritage, They’re positioned on the island of Gozo, one of many 21 islands within the Mediterranean Sea that make up the Maltese archipelago.
One of the shocking issues about this development is that when it was made there have been no instruments nor had the wheel been invented, so it’s shocking to see how all of the rocks match collectively completely.