Mosta, Malta

... for it. As could be expected it totally dominates the town of Mosta and indeed the entire region of Central Malta. Perhaps the clincher for the Mosta Dome and the incident that makes it so special to the Maltese people is when 3 bombs hit the dome in ...

... to walk around, and has of course a main cathedral and museum.  It's cool to see the differences in architecture between Malta and Sicily, even the rest of Italy as well.  There is definitely more of an Arab influence here than in Sicily, and it ...

... Lira (pound) even though the Euro is coming, so it is foreign but in English.  I can do this. :D However now I leave Malta against my better judgement (I'd happily just move in) and head back to Sicily to think in Italian for a few more days before ...

... town with little to see, apart from the very famous Parish Church of Santa Maria, generally better known as the Mosta Dome. During the Second World War, Malta was heavily bombed by the Italians and Germans, and on the afternoon of the 9th of June 1942, ...