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District of Marsaskala
Marsaskala - Malta

Geography of Malta

The geography of Malta is dominated by water. Malta is an archipelago of coralline limestone, located in the Mediterranean Sea, approximately 93 kilometres south of Sicily, Italy, and nearly 300 km north (Libya) and northeast (Tunisia) of Africa. Although Malta is situated in Europe, it is located farther south than African Tunis, capital of Tunisia, Algiers, capital of Algeria, Tangier in Morocco and also Aleppo in Syria, and Mosul in Iraq in the Middle East.

Located at 35.8333, 14.5833 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Geography of Malta

Għar Dalam

Għar Dalam (pronounced ar dàlam in Maltese and meaning "Cave of Darkness") is a prehistorical cul de sac located on the outskirts of Birżebbuġa, Malta containing the bone remains of animals that were stranded and subsequently became extinct on Malta at the end of the Ice age. It has lent its name to the Għar Dalam phase in Maltese prehistory.

Located at 35.8359, 14.5276 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Caves of Malta, Prehistoric sites in Malta, Museums in Malta, Archaeological museums

Fort Rinella

Fort Rinella is a Victorian fortification on the island of Malta. It is also referred to as the Rinella Battery in some maps and publications.

Located at 35.8944, 14.5325 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, Coastal artillery, History of Malta, Government buildings completed in 1886, Infrastructure completed in 1886

Fort Leonardo

Fort Leonardo also known as Fort St Leonardo, Fort San Leonardo and Fort San Anard is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands between the villages of San Leonardo and Zonqor above the shore east of Grand Harbour. It was built between 1872 and 1878 by the British. Fort St Leonardo still exists, and is in reasonable repair, though a house has been built inside the ditch and the ditch in-filled to create an access. The seaward ditches are all in good repair.

Located at 35.8778, 14.5597 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, 1870s architecture

St Thomas Tower

St Thomas Tower is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands above the shore on the seaward face of the headland of Il-Hamriga. The tower was built by the Knights of Malta in 1614 during the reign of Grand Master Fra Alof de Wignacourt, and is one of the set of Wignacourt towers. It is a substantial fortification intended to prevent the landing of troops in the sheltered anchorages of Marsascala Creek and St Thomas Bay.

Located at 35.8611, 14.5728 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Wignacourt towers, Buildings and structures completed in 1614

Fort Ricasoli

Fort Ricasoli is a large fortification on the island of Malta. The fort was built by the Knights of Malta between 1670 and 1693.

Located at 35.8975, 14.5258 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, 17th-century architecture

Mamo Tower

Mamo Tower is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands on rising ground above St Thomas Bay on the east shore of Malta. The Mamo family built the tower in 1657, as a fortified residence. In 1940 the British Military requisitioned the tower and used it as a Regional Headquarters. In support of this role, they constructed a pillbox on the roof. After World War II it was again a private house until 1987, when the poor condition of the building rendered it unsuitable for habitation.

Located at 35.8544, 14.5569 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Towers in Malta, Buildings and structures completed in 1657

Fort Delimara

Fort Delimara is a fortification in Marsaxlokk, Malta.

Located at 35.8239, 14.5575 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, 1880s architecture

St Lucian Tower

St Lucian Tower is a fortification on the island of Malta that stands above the shore of Marsaxlokk Bay on the headland between Marsaxlokk and Birzebbuga. It was built by the Knights of Malta between 1610 and 1611 and is one of a series of Wignacourt towers. The British substantially extended it and the original tower now forms the core of a Victorian era fortress. The tower is surrounded by a rock cut ditch, with caponiers, a sunken gate, and a curved entrance ramp.

Located at 35.8303, 14.5436 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, Wignacourt towers, 1610s architecture

Fort Saint Michael

Fort St Michael was a fortification on the island of Malta. A fort of that name was built by the Knights of Malta between 1551 and 1565 on the peninsula then known as Isla St Michael formed by Dockyard Creek and French Creek in Grand Harbour. This area is still known as L-Isla, but is now occupied by the fortified city of Senglea.

Located at 35.8844, 14.5189 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, Demolished buildings and structures, Buildings and structures completed in 1565

Fort St. Rocco

Fort St Rocco, also known as Fort St Roca on some maps, is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands east of the Rinella Battery and seaward of the village of Santu Rokku, and forms part of the complex of shore batteries defending the coast east of the mouth of Grand Harbour.

Located at 35.8925, 14.5378 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, Government buildings completed in 1872, Infrastructure completed in 1872

Three Cities

The Three Cities is a collective description of the three fortified cities of Cospicua, Vittoriosa, and Senglea on the Island of Malta, which are enclosed by the massive line of fortification created by the Knights of St John, the Cottonera Lines. "Cottonera" is usually taken to include these Three Cities and Kalkara.

Located at 35.8769, 14.5219 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Populated places in Malta

Fort Tas-Silġ

Fort Tas-Silġ is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands on high ground at the shoreward end of Delimara Point, above Il-Ħofra-z-Zgħira. It is a Polygonal fort and was built by the British. Its primary function was as a fire control point controlling the massed guns of Fort Delimara on the headland below. The fort is a classic example of the type. The gatehouse, and the shoreward ditch are in fair repair, but there has been considerable collapse of the inner face of the north ditch.

Located at 35.84, 14.5569 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta

ORP Kujawiak (L72)

The ORP Kujawiak was a British Hunt-class destroyer escort, formerly named the HMS Oakley. Kujawiak was built by Vickers-Armstrongs at the company's High Walker yard on the River Tyne. Her keel was laid down on 22 November 1939 and she was launched on 30 October 1940. Originally commissioned into the Royal Navy, she was renamed and commissioned into the Polish Navy in June 1941. Kujawiak was sunk on 16 June 1942 after running into a mine near Malta while participating in Operation Harpoon.

Located at 35.8833, 14.5833 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Hunt-class destroyers of the Royal Navy, 1940 ships, World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom, Hunt-class destroyers of the Polish Navy, World War II destroyers of Poland, World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, Maritime incidents in 1942, Ships sunk by mines

St Paul's Battery

St Paul's Battery is a fortification on the island of Malta. It stands on high ground at the shoreward end of Delimara Point, above Il-Ħofra-z-Zgħira. It is a polygonal fort and was built by the British. It commands a field of fire northwards over St Thomas' Bay and Marsaskala. The fort is currently in very poor condition. Approximately 300 m south is Fort Tas-Silg, a much larger polygonal style fortification.

Located at 35.8433, 14.56 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta

Cottonera Lines

The Cottonera Lines are a massive line of fortifications surrounding the Three Cities of Vittoriosa, Senglea, and Cospicua, in Malta. They are entirely built on four of the Bormla (Cospicua) hills. Grand Master Cottoner is still inked to Bormla with his surname's coat-of-arms now depicted in the emblem of the Bormla Local Council. They were designed by Italian engineer Antonio Maurizio Valperga in the 17th Century, and named after Grand Master Nicolau Cotoner.

Located at 35.8769, 14.5219 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Fortification in Malta

SmartCity Malta

SmartCity is a technology park under development in Kalkara, Malta. The plan is to transform the Ricasoli Industrial Estate into a state-of-the-art information technology and media city on the models of Dubai Internet City and Dubai Media City. The project was unveiled on 10 September 2007 by the Prime Minister of Malta, Lawrence Gonzi. The project will cost at least €275 million.

Located at 35.8908, 14.5403 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Buildings and structures under construction, Industrial parks in Malta

Inquisitor's Palace

Not to be confused with the Palace of the Holy Office in the Vatican. The Inquisitor's Palace is a museum sited in the heart of Birgu, Vittoriosa, Malta. The palace was erected as the civil law courts of the Order of St John between 1530s and 1571 then became the inquisitor’s residence from 1574 until 1798. The Inquisitor’s Palace is now the "flagship" of Maltese Ethnography.

Located at 35.8872, 14.5228 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Museums in Malta, Religious museums

Malta Maritime Museum

The Malta Maritime Museum is housed within the Old Naval bakery in Vittoriosa, it drafts Malta’s maritime history which is tightly bound to Mediterranean Sea. It also illustrates the global nature of seafaring and its impact on society from July 1992. The museum houses numerous artefacts highlighting different epochs, shaping Maltese seafaring trough paint, charts, evidence and sea technology evolution. So it shows Malta’s maritime history from prehistory to the present day.

Located at 35.8876, 14.5208 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Maritime museums, Museums in Malta, History of the Mediterranean

HMS Russell (1901)

HMS Russell was a Duncan-class predreadnought battleship of the Royal Navy.

Located at 35.9, 14.6 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Duncan-class battleships, 1901 ships, World War I battleships of the United Kingdom, Ships sunk by mines, World War I shipwrecks in the Mediterranean

RNH Bighi

RNH Bighi, also known as Bighi Hospital, was a major naval hospital located in the small town of Kalkara on the island of Malta. It served the eastern Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th centuries and, in conjunction with the RN Memorial Hospital at Imtarfa, contributed to the nursing and medical care of casualties whenever hostilities occurred in the Mediterranean.

Located at 35.8931, 14.5245 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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History of Malta, Hospitals in Malta

Della Grazie Battery

Della Grazie Battery is a fortification by the British on the island of Malta. It stands above the shore to the east of Grand Harbour, close to the present day town of Xghajra. Construction started in 1888 and was completed in March 1893. The battery was constructed to take advantage of the improved breech loading guns then coming into service. It was equipped with two 6 inc and two 10 inch breech loading guns in disappearing mounts.

Located at 35.8858, 14.5494 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta

Raise the Titanic (film)

Raise the Titanic is a 1980 adventure film by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment and directed by Jerry Jameson. The film, which was written by Eric Hughes (adaptation) and Adam Kennedy (screenplay), was based on the book of the same name by Clive Cussler. The story concerns a plan to recover the RMS Titanic because it is carrying cargo valuable to Cold War hegemony.

Located at 35.8934, 14.5346 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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1980 films, 1980s action films, British films, British action films, American films, American action films, English-language films, Dirk Pitt films, Films based on works by Clive Cussler, Films set in New York City, Films shot in Alaska, Films shot in California, Films shot in England, Films shot in Greece, Films shot in Los Angeles, California, Films shot in Malta, Films shot in New York City, Films shot in Washington, D.C., Independent films, Films about RMS Titanic, ITC Entertainment films

St. Lawrence's Church, Vittoriosa

St. Lawrence's Church is an old Church situated in Birgu in Malta. In the 'Rollo' (inventory) of the benefices of the churches and chapels in Malta and Gozo, held by Bishop de Mello in 1436, ten established chapels are mentioned, amongst which the Church of San Lorenzo a Mare. When the Order of Saint John first settled in Malta in 1530, all of their langues were based in Birgu, so the Church of Saint Laurence was used as the Order's first Conventual Church in Malta.

Located at 35.8874, 14.5215 (Lat. / Lng.), about 3 miles away.
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Churches in Malta

Marsaxlokk Ground

Marsaxlokk Ground is a football pitch in Marsaxlokk, a traditional fishing village located in the south-eastern part of Malta. The ground is used mostly for football matches and is the home stadium of Marsaxlokk Football Club. Marsaxlokk FC uses this ground for training and practice matches.

Located at 35.8417, 14.5447 (Lat. / Lng.), about 2 miles away.
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Football venues in Malta