Planning the summer holiday 2013 and seeing the holidays in Malta on the site "Ferring", I did not hesitate for a minute. After all, many years ago, a leafy magazine "Around the World", I fell in love with the Yellow Optlings of the Knights of the Maltese Order, transparent, as if a tear, the sea, and ancient megalites, who keep their secrets. So my long and interesting path on Sushi Block, hidden on the way from Africa to Europe began.
The main island of the Maltese state, in fact, is very small - one city gradually develops into the next, very similar to it. All of them, like Siamese twins, are associated with a single curl along the coast of expensive and protected by powerful fortress walls erected from dazzling and yellow sandstone. And the end item to this narrow highway, where it is not always possible to break down the two cars, is a magnificent Valletta.
Here are the main bus station of the country, which, like ants, all buses are slipped, and a small berth, which every half hour arrives route boats with Sls and St. Julians. Walking along the parallel streets of the old town, laid out of time by a paving slave, look at both. Only at first glance, the mansions made of sandstone seem "two of the Lartz, the same from the face" - in fact, some landmark is necessarily hidden behind each turn. On the territory of Vallettes there are ministries and offices of large companies, cozy souvenir shops and branded shops, a cafe with national cuisine and museums.
Many epithets can be found for the city, who became the center of power of the Order of the Maltese Cross, and it is difficult to list and all the "Must-See", fed on the streets of the compact capital. If you find yourself in Valletta not on Sunday, when everything is closed, except for the grocery stores and stalls for tourists, arrange a cognitive tour. Go to the Palace of the Grand Master, located opposite the Palace of Parliament, and, having come across the weapons and the wards of masters (if you, unlike me, will be lucky there), listen to the story of the Great Siege. Speak the chalk, looking at the details of the two masterpieces of Caravaggio, stored inside the luxurious Cathedral of St. John (entrance to the Temple of Paid), and find out about all the battles that took place in Malta, at the exhibitions of the National Archaeological Museum. And if you want to enjoy fabulous species, walk along the ruins of the huge Fort of St. Elma and get acquainted with lizards, slowly walking through the alleys of the baking gardens.
Choosing a cafe for lunch, be careful: prices even in neighboring establishments differ markedly as the quality of the cooked food.