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.
0 km · about 5 min drive
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Valletta
Valletta, Malta · Europe
About Valletta
Valletta works well as a base: 9km from St Peter's Pool.
Valletta is in Malta, with about 6,800 people. You drive on the left here.
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Within an hour or so of Valletta: St John's Co-Cathedral (0 km), Upper Barrakka Gardens (1 km), Fort St Angelo (1 km), Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum (3 km).
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Valletta is in Valletta, Malta.
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Quick Information
- Population
- 6,794
- Continent
- Europe
- Country
- Malta
- Region
- Valletta
- Timezone
- Europe/Malta
- Coordinates
- 35.8997, 14.5148
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Worth the detour from Valletta
8 notable places within an hour's 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.
1 km · about 5 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.
1 km · about 5 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.
3 km · about 5 min drive
landmark
Marsaxlokk
Fishing village on Malta's southeast coast lined with painted luzzu boats, known for its Sunday fish market and waterfront restaurants.
7 km · about 15 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.
8 km · about 15 min drive
natural wonder
St Peter's Pool
Natural swimming hole in flat golden limestone near Delimara Point, where shelves of rock drop into deep clear water: Malta's favourite low-key cliff-jumping spot. Reached by a rough lane from Marsaxlokk; arrive early in summer.
9 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.
10 km · about 20 min drive
Driving roads near Valletta
- 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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