Man first arrived in Malta around 5200 BC, probably from Sicily (about 100km/60 miles to the north), and mainly formed farming and fishing communities. What survives of this community are the fragments of carved statuettes emphasising female characteristics as a fertility cult. With all the modern technology available to researchers and archaeologists, little more is […]
Il periodo del tempio, uno dei periodi più importanti della storia di Malta, iniziò intorno al 3600 aC. Malta ha non meno di sei templi del Patrimonio Mondiale dell’UNESCO. Il tempio preistorico di Ġgantija (pietre giganti) a Gozo è il più antico edificio indipendente al mondo.
L’Homme est arrivé à Malte autour de 5200 avant Jésus Christ, probablement de Sicile (environ 100 Km au Nord) et formait des communautés d’agriculteurs et de pêcheurs
Die ersten Menschen kamen ungefähr 5 200 v.Chr. von Sizilien (ungefähr 100km im Norden) nach Malta und lebten größtenteils in Ackerbau- und Fischfang-Gemeinden. Von dieser Gemeinschaft sind lediglich Überreste von geschnitzten Statuen erhalten, die weibliche Eigenschaften als Fruchtbarkeitskult betonen. Trotz moderner Technologien, die den Forschern und Archäologen zur Verfügung stehen, weiß man kaum mehr aus […]
Master seafarers and traders, the Phoenicians left no written accounts of themselves and it is only through their remains that we can draw information on their stay that brought the first written alphabet to Malta, taking Malta from prehistory to history proper.
I Fenici erano un popolo marinaro che viveva lungo la Costa Levantina, e navigava oltre i confoni del mondo conosciuto. Nonostante abbiano inventato la scrittura, non hanno lasciato niente di scritto su di loro, ma è grazie ai resti di ceramiche, e alla rottura del condice sul “cippo” di Malta che sappiamo qualcosa su questo […]
On the Romans’ first raid in Malta in 255BC, they pillaged and destroyed but did not remain. Clearly, they did not yet recognize the strategic significance of the islands. Still, once Malta became part of the Roman Empire it flourished like never before.
‘MUŻA’ stands for MUŻew Nazzjonali tal-Arti, the Maltese name of the National Museum of Fine Arts, also a playful reference to the muses; the mythological figures who inspired creativity. And indeed, for its size, Malta’s MUŻA Fine Arts Museum offers a remarkable collection of over 20,000 works of European creativity, exhibiting works by world-renowned artists […]
Malta’s highest archaeological remains attributed to the Phoenician period are found in the garden of the parish priest’s house at Zurrieq.
As may be seen in the typical, cube-shaped houses that survive from medieval times to the present day, Malta’s medieval architecture was set by climate and lifestyle as well as Sicilian and Arab influences…
Drawn to Malta by his ambition and that of Grand Master de Redin, Preti spent 40 years working in Malta, painting many more works than just those in St John’s Co-Cathedral; Malta’s art heritage forever enriched by the ambition of these two men.
Come si può vedere nelle tipiche case dalla forma cubica che sopravvivono dal perido medievale fino ai giorni nostri, l’architettura Medievale di Malta è stata impostata dal clima e e dallo stile di vita così come le influenze Siciliane e Arabe.
Comme nous le constatons dans les maisons typiques assez carrées qui ont survécu depuis l’époque médiévale jusqu’à nos jours, l’architecture médiévale de Malte était plus déterminée par le climat et le mode de vie, ainsi que par les influences siciliennes et arabes, plutôt que par une philosophie ou un design architectural. Construites sur deux étages, […]
The study of Maltese late-medieval fortification is a difficult task by any measure.
Man has always felt the fundamental need to protect and defend himself, his family and his home by building strong walls around him.
Geographic location has a strong tendency to influence history. The story of Malta is an important case in point. Due to its important strategic position practically in the centre of the Mediterranean
The Order of St John had intended to build a city on the site known as Mount Sceberras long before the actual birth of Valletta in 1566. In 1524, eight Knights who were sent to Malta, had already identified this peninsula standing high between two natural ports as the ideal place for a new fortified city.
The history of the urbanisation of the harbour area begins with its fortification, initiating with the construction of the Castrum Maris in medieval times, providing security to the inhabitants as up to that time there were no coastal defences.
Bormla lies just outside both Birgu and Isla, and therefore was an important first line of defence. The first stone of the bastions designed to surround the town of Bormla, known as the Santa Margherita or Firenzuola Lines, was laid on the 30th December 1638.
Isla is the smallest among the Three Cities in the Cottonera. Built on a tongue of land next to Birgu, it was a logical and natural development in the move to live in the harbour area created by the Knights with their arrival in Malta in 1530.
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