where is malta Archives - ToursMaps.com ® http://toursmaps.com/tag/where-is-malta Mon, 19 Sep 2016 10:23:30 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0.9 MALTA http://toursmaps.com/malta.html http://toursmaps.com/malta.html#respond Tue, 20 Sep 2016 22:00:00 +0000 http://toursmaps.com/?p=221836 MALTA Consisting of three Mediterranean islands fifty-eight miles south of Sicily, Malta is only 121 square miles in all. The history-minded traveler loves Malta for its castles and fortresses. Valletta, Malta’s capital, sits on a narrow spot of land bordered by two harbors. The Knights of St. John, the famous crusader order, was headquartered there between 1530 and 1798. Malta’s seat of government occupies what was the Grand Master’s Palace. Old inns, once used by the knights, now house government agencies. The National Archeology Museum exhibits finds from temples built on Malta as long as twenty-five hundred years ago. Tourists,

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