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Most tourists in Malta stay in a seaside resort -- they go to the beach to escape the cold English weather. We stayed in Valletta, the capital, which was unusual in that it had a reasonably modern grid of streets inside ancient city walls.
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The guest house owner's husband had been an electrician before he died, and he collected broken chandeliers, and had a hobby of reassembling them into functional ones which were all over the place. |
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The next morning we explored Valletta's archaeological museum and its "co-cathedral". Here's a famous "sleeping lady" statue originally discovered in the Hypogeum. Web sites call it "a clay figurine of exquisite craftsmanship" and say it represents a priestess who would prophecy on the basis of her dreams. |
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One of the most fascinating coins I've seen in any coin collection. |
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St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valletta. I guess the cathedral in Mdina is the Malta diocese's "official" cathedral, so this one has to settle for being the "co-cathedral". But it is quite ornate and has an extensive museum accompanying it. |
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Pretty much the entire floor is covered with slabs of inlaid marble covering graves. In most of them, the deceased is pictured as a skeleton. |
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Did the deceased stand like this often? More pictures from the co-cathedral... |
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A Maltese bus. More sights from Valetta... |
