Valletta

Valletta is a small town in the southeast of Malta Island, and the capital of the nation of Malta. Its metropolitan area extends over the entire island and thus include 394 thousand people.¹ The city proper is little changed since the days when it was planned and constructed by a Christian military group and, because of that preservation and its compactness, it is honored as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. Other World Heritage Sites on the island are the Hal Salieni Hypogeum, a Neolithic underground complex dating back to about 2500 BCE, and the Bronze Age temples of Hagar Qim, Mnajdra, Tarxien, Ta'Hagrat and Skorba.² Perhaps the tallest building on the island is the 492 foot chimney of the Delimara Power Station (1992).³

External references

Harbor view of Valletta, Malta Island, Malta

Footnotes

1. Side bar of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valletta, accessed February 16, 2017.
2. The five temples are part of one site, and that site extends to include temples on Gozo Island.
3. Emporis.com, accessed February 23, 2017.