Malta
When
April to Oct
Price
From 1 500€ excl. flights
(based on 2 people sharing)
How long
3 nights
Ideal length
Gozo, the second-largest island in the Maltese archipelago, distinguishes itself from Malta through a deliberately more rural and slower pace of life, preserved by an economy geared toward agriculture and fishing rather than the mass tourism concentrated on the main island. The megalithic site of Ggantija, whose construction is believed to date to around 3600 BCE, ranks among the oldest freestanding structures ever erected by humanity, predating the Egyptian pyramids of Giza by over a thousand years, and remains today surrounded by local legends attributing its construction to a mythical giantess.
The megalithic complex of Ggantija, whose construction is believed to date to around 3600 BCE, ranks among the oldest freestanding structures ever erected by humanity, predating the Egyptian pyramids of Giza by over a thousand years and Stonehenge in England by several centuries. The name Ggantija, which literally means "giantess's tower" in Maltese, comes from a local legend attributing the site's construction to a giant woman fed on beans and honey, said to have single-handedly carried the monumental stone blocks weighing up to fifty tonnes.
Gozo, whose economy remains largely geared toward terraced agriculture and small-scale fishing rather than the mass tourism concentrated on Malta's main island, retains a deliberately more rural pace of life, symbolised by the Qbajjar salt pans, salt marshes worked using traditional methods unchanged for centuries along the island's northern coast. The coastal landscape of Dwejra, whose former natural limestone window collapsed in 2017 due to erosion, today retains a spectacular inland lagoon connected to the sea by an underground tunnel, accessible by boat from the coast.
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