Malta (english)
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At 50 miles (80km) south of Sicily Malta is the European country with the highest density, 1,542 inhabitants per square kilometer, a total of 493,559 living in the 316 square kilometers that occupy the three islands of the minimum archipelago, Malta, Gozo and the tiny Comino.
10% of its registered inhabitants are immigrants, but Malta is alike a "gigantic permanent cruise" in which immigrants, Maltese and many, especially "many" tourists live in "profitable" harmony for all.
English is the vehicular language but Maltese is a national language -a mixture of Arabic, Greek, Italian, Sicilian, Spanish, Catalan and English-. Italian is also frequently spoken by many Maltese.
Malta is some beaches, Roman pools in Silema, curious natural spaces by the sea such as "St. Peter´s Pool" and many coves for pleasure boats such as the large and small Il Hoffra.
Also churches, 365 advertise their tourist brochures, some of them appear here and there in my videos but special mention for the gigantic size of its dome, is the Rotunda in Mosta.
It is gastronomy, with a wide range of restaurants, a must visit to Noni - a rich lamb, but all the dishes looked very good - and Café Cordina, both in La Valletta.
It's party and live music. In the days of my visit the Gay Pride was the protagonist. An island open to the World.
It is a Sunday´s market in the fishing village of Marsaxlokk.
And Malta is above all History, from the megalithic with numerous vestiges on the islands, highlighting the two temples of Ggantija on the island of Gozo dating back 5,600 years old -Unesco Heritage-, to the new architecture of today through the immense imprint left by the almighty and omnipresent "Caballeros de San Juan". Because Malta is the most graphic definition that I have known of two words: “Fortress” and “Bastion”, impregnable walls of well-used orography everywhere counting on many occasions with the Mediterranean as the best moat, La Valletta –the capital- or Vittoriosa –Birgu-, where the Inquisitor´s Palace stands out are a good testimony.Also inside the old capital Mdina, a small fortified villa traveled by carriages that has 200 inhabitants of the local nobility and some others itinerants that move from the next and much more populated
Another
fortified city to visit is Cittadella in the center of the island of
Gozo. On the left side of the cathedral is the Ta´Rikardu restaurant
where I ate a wonderful rabbit, one of the typical dishes of Malta.
Malta is a good destination to spend a few days and a place where some are also attracted by a claim that I envy "a place where you can set up a business in three days", naturally they have not made their three islands three different autonomies, with three assemblies and three hundred deputies whose task is justified in putting different appendices in the regulatory frameworks of each of them.
