landmark
Valletta
UNESCO-listed Baroque fortress city built by the Knights of St John, packed with more historic monuments per square metre than any other city.
4 km · about 10 min drive
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Swieqi
Is-Swieqi, Malta · Europe
About Swieqi
Swieqi works well as a base: 11km from Blue Grotto, Malta.
Swieqi is in Is-Swieqi, Malta, with about 14,000 people. You drive on the left here.
Swieqi (Maltese: Is-Swieqi) is a town in the Eastern Region of Malta. It is a residential area just 15 minutes by bus from Sliema and within walking distance of Malta's nightlife and entertainment centres, Paceville and St. Julian's. As the town developed, residential estates took over farmland. The town's name meansRead more
"water channels", a reminder of the region's past.
The population of Swieqi was 14,979 in July 2024. This included 7,725 males and 7,254 females; 8,286 Maltese nationals and 6,693 foreign nationals.
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What is there to see near Swieqi?
Within an hour or so of Swieqi: Valletta (4 km), St John's Co-Cathedral (4 km), Upper Barrakka Gardens (4 km), Fort St Angelo (5 km).
Where is Swieqi?
Swieqi is in Is-Swieqi, Malta.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 14,452
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Malta
- Region
- Is-Swieqi
- Timezone
- Europe/Malta
- Coordinates
- 35.9215, 14.4800
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Worth the detour from Swieqi
8 notable places within an hour's drive.
cathedral
St John's Co-Cathedral
Baroque cathedral in Valletta built by the Knights of St John, housing Caravaggio's Beheading of Saint John the Baptist.
4 km · about 5 min drive
scenic viewpoint
Upper Barrakka Gardens
Terraced garden on Valletta's bastions overlooking the Grand Harbour and Three Cities, with a daily saluting battery firing.
4 km · about 10 min drive
castle
Fort St Angelo
Bastioned fort at the tip of Birgu commanding the Grand Harbour, central to the 1565 Great Siege and now a museum site.
5 km · about 10 min drive
cathedral
Rotunda of Mosta
Parish church with one of the world's largest unsupported domes (37 m), modelled on the Pantheon and built by villagers between 1833 and 1860. In 1942 a Luftwaffe bomb pierced the dome during Mass and failed to explode: a replica sits in the sacristy.
5 km · about 10 min drive
ancient ruins
Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum
The world's only known prehistoric underground temple: three levels of chambers carved into living rock around 3300-3000 BC, with red-ochre spirals still on the ceilings. Only 80 visitors a day are admitted; book weeks ahead.
6 km · about 10 min drive
landmark
Mdina
Malta's ancient walled capital known as the 'Silent City', with narrow medieval streets and sweeping views over the island.
8 km · about 15 min drive
natural wonder
Blue Grotto, Malta
Series of sea caverns on Malta's southern coast where sunlight creates a luminous phosphorescent blue glow on the water.
11 km · about 20 min drive
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- Right hereUpper Barrakka GardensTerraced garden on Valletta's bastions overlooking the Grand Harbour and Three Cities, with a daily saluting battery firing.
- Right hereDingli CliffsMalta's highest sea cliffs on the island's west coast, with a clifftop road, chapel and open views towards the islet of Filfla.
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