Malta in Pictures
by Cruising Editor on 16 Aug 2006
Valletta Harbour Entrance BW Media
Malta is a unique set of islands in the middle of the Mediterranean, for millennia a strategic location for surrounding countries, who vied to control it. There is evidence of organised societies existing here since BCE 6,000. A member of the European Union since 2004, it was, until 1974, a member of the British Commonwealth.
It’s also a sailing-mad community these days, with a very high boat ownership ratio. With only 316 square kilometres of land, it has hundreds of attractive anchorages, well enjoyed by the local population. It’s highest hill is Ta-Dmerjrek at only 253 metres above sea-level, and the local limestone has provided natural building material for the miles of fortified walls that ring its harbours and also for the immense and stylish buildings left over from past and more glorious eras.
Today it is an inexpensive tourist mecca for the vast European population in search of summer holidays….
But let the pictures tell the story:
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