RACV Travel & Leisure For Member Resorts, Golf & Discounts
Summer season fun is over. Valletta, Malta’s capital and a UNESCO World Heritage website, is nothing wanting an open-air museum. It’s a residing expertise of Baroque structure, a monument donated by the Knights of St John almost 5 centuries ago. Throughout the years, Valletta has welcomed emperors, heads of state, artists and poets and is now the permanent seat of the Maltese government. It is the most complete instance of a planned fortified city and its setting between two pure harbours is impressive and its richness is contained in a road plan grid of twelve streets by 9. The capital of Malta is inextricably linked to the history of the navy and charitable Order of St John of Jerusalem. It was ruled successively by the Phoenicians, Greeks, Carthaginians, Romans, Byzantines, Arabs and the Order of the Knights of St John. Valletta’s 320 monuments, all within an space of fifty five …