Country Info
- Valletta
- Capital
- Maltese Lira (MTL)
- Currency
- 394,583
- Population
- MT
- Country Code
Valletta Slideshow
Top Hotels in Valletta
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Excelsior Grand Hotel Malta Valletta
814 reviews -
Hotel Phoenicia Valletta
720 reviews
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Osborne Valletta
257 reviews -
The British Hotel Valletta
153 reviews -
Castille Hotel Valletta
117 reviews
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Etvan Hotel Valletta
2 reviews
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Grand Harbour Hotel Valletta
47 reviews -
Sofitel Demeure Castille Valletta
117 reviews
Valletta
Travel Blogs from Valletta, Malta
We haven't seen any Maltese falcons yet.
This is a top pick! ... to leave here in a few hours and I am thinking of staging a sit in - I really don't want to leave!! I LOVE MALTA!! Our closing comments and observations on Malta: We used both cabs and busses. No big surprise; cabs were expensive and fast, ...
Return To Malta.
This is a top pick! ... for the ferry. Fantastic views looking back at Mgarr harbour. (I put the photos on the wrong page, I,ll move them later.) I,m back in Malta by 11 am and a strong tail wind helps me to get over the ridges. I have to keep stopping to look back at the ...
Walking tours of Vallatta, Rabat and Mdina.
This is a top pick! ... , Mdina, Victoria(Gozo). For a change I left the bike behind and tried out the leaflets. Good fun. I spent Monday morning in Valletta, admiring the architecture and visiting St John's Co Cathedral. Miriam, owner of the Hibernia, had listed it as one of ...
Gozo
This is a top pick! ... in the wrong direction and that was when I noticed I was not where I thought I was. Back on the right road I found that Malta has a couple of steep climbs after all. I actually broke into a sweat getting over the last couple of hills to the harbour. A ...
Daily Excursions
This is a top pick! ... . South Of The Island On Sunday I explored the south of the island. On my map the dark grey represents the conurbation around Valletta and the light grey the "highlands" (200m) of the limestone plateau around Dingli. I headed straight for it by the ...
Around and about Malta
This is a top pick! ... around Malta and Gozo (including Hagar Qim) and are now on display in the National Archaeological Museum in Valletta. Also, if you a planning a trip to Malta you should book ahead for an excursion to Hal Saflieni Hypogeum, a complex of underground burial ...
Going down in Gozo
This is a top pick! ... There are brands here, but I can't pronounce them. So I have to award this one to the tasty and not-too-difficult to pronounce Cisk (pron. Chisk). Malta's home grown beer delivers the goods at a reasonable price and with a nice ring to it to ...
Malta - Mediterranian Stronghold.
This is a top pick! ... has a moratorium on numbers, hence booking a couple of weeks in advance is essential if you wish to visit. Footnote: City of Valletta,Hal Saflieni Hypogeum and Megalethic Temples of Malta 7 are all UNESCO World Heritage ...
Malteser of an entry
This is a top pick! ... -looking populace, which is to be expected given the uniquely colourful history of this isolated nation. More on that later. Valletta is a hard place to picture and imagine. Everything is built with the warm yellow limestone of the island and ...
Merbha Malta. Welcome Malta.
This is a top pick! ... Valletta in minutes. As it turned out I ended up in Marsa and it took me an hour or so to get my bearings to Valletta. The first thing that strikes you about Vallette is the scale and grandeur of the place. All the buildings are limestone, the city ...
Home of the Knights
This is a top pick! ... there were palm trees, it felt like North Africa, the surrounding buildings reminded us more of Tunisia. As we drove towards Valletta, everything changed. All of a sudden it felt like we were in Luxumbourg. We were driving into a giant fort. Rampart upon ...
Malta in the middle
This is a top pick! ... used to. I was expecting a tiny beach resort feel of an island full of sandy beaches just minutes from the town centre. Valletta, the main part of the huge city on the cliff overlooking the med was simply gigantic. The island itself has a very early ...
history day
Spent the morning in Valletta and went to visit the Palace of the Grand Masters. This is still used as the parliment building so if they are sitting you can't visit. Very interesting,loads of suits of armour and paintings of the various grand masters. ...
The End of Crazytown Europe
... back my Lm0.20 and said to go take the taxi for Lm6.00. I gave him the 30 cents. The bus driver is always right. Malta is a strange place isolated from the rest of the world. People here go at their own pace and no faster. Although its been the center ...
Valletta and a Date!
... to Valletta to see his opera on opening night. You never know! The weather had fined up and I was having a great time in Valletta once again. I had a few more hours to kill so was walking past a cinema and found that Bourne Ultimatum was showing, I ...
Back to Malta
... next ferry" and don't want to change that plan for anything. After a breakfast consisting of 4 pieces of toast, we headed back to Malta. Back at the Balco again, I set out to get my laundry done. The woman here at the hostel said they offered the ...
malta
... a few of the sights with zio johnny and walked and walked most of the time we didnt know where we were going. went to valletta and looked around i got a pair of thongs but they did have daves size in shoes he was deeply disappointed they only catered for ...
go go to gozo
Doing a tour to Gozo today, wanted only a small group but by the time we had all been bussed up to the departure point for the ferry there was 38, nice and cosy, not! Anyway met a nice man that is staying at our hotel, he is from Wakefield ...
Malta: Europe's Best Kept Secret
... , it's see you soon, it's have a good time." He said as we climbed out and headed back into the hotel. Gozo: Malta's Little Sister The history of Gozo is rather tragic; similar to Malta's only instead of fending off the Turkish forces the ...
Middle of the Med
... . John's Co-cathedral. We took a boat taxi ride around the Grand Harbour and had dinner out on the deck over looking the massive Valletta bastions. The food was fantastic and could there be a better view? We soon found out the answer lied on the island of ...
hoho
... of places are shut from 12 to 4!) Hopped on the next bus and went down along the coast, glad we decided to stay in Valletta, all a bit too overdeveloped for me. Hopped off in Sliema to take our free harbour cruise only to be told they had finished for ...
Last day in Malta.
... her once a month). Aunty Julie was always very happy when we visited Christine. After the visit we hit the streets of Valletta! There was a real carnival atmosphere and like usual with these sorts of things it seemed that all of Malta had turned out ...
I am officially Maltese.
... soon I found myself with the camera out taking photos of anything that struck my fancy, I really want to capture as much of Valletta and indeed Malta as I can to take home with me. Whilst I am quite certain it wont be another 30 years before I return who ...
Going Flat Out In Malta
... . I think at one point we had argued over whos turn it was to wear it. Heaps of fun for all! I have been in Malta for seven days now and havenīt really stopped drinking. When i arrived at the airport i remember looking out the window and being ...
Pretty gardens!!
... was a nice day so no problems! It is all statues, churches and gardens. So of course we ended up going to Valletta for a little shopping!!! We went along Republic Street which only pedestrians are aloud on and its all old historical looking buildings with ...
Golden Bay & Ghajn Tuffieha
In my first 10 days on the main island of Malta I had managed to tick off many of the places that I had pencilled in when planning the trip thumbing through my trusty Lonely Planet guide back home. It is a surreal process spending hours reading, ...
On The Rock!
... by a visit to the oldest temple in the world!....the 5000 year old Mnajdra! Whoah! Later we caught the bus into Valletta for a wander around the capital before coming home for an incredible home cooked feast! Up at five tomorrow morning (aarggh - it's ...
We made it!!
... , Cypus but we weren't aloud to get off the plane so we just sat there for about 1 hour and then were on our way to Malta!! We were finally there!! Lots of tears (Mum and Nana!) and hugs and kisses from what was the strangers!!! Bec and I were in a ...
Malta - Making New Friends
... to him. And Joe has the stories to prove it, which he will gladly share with you in great detail over a beer. Strategically located, Malta has held the world's attention since the days of the crusading knights (the Knights of Malta). As a child, Joe was ...