Malta
About Valletta
Valletta is a fortress city built by warrior-monks, a grid of golden limestone packed onto a peninsula between two harbours.
Enclosed balconies in faded colours lean over streets that drop in stairways to the sea, and bastions ring the whole thing. The Knights of St John left baroque churches and a co-cathedral floored with the marble tombs of a city designed for siege.
It's tiny and dense, sun-bleached and history-soaked, the Mediterranean glittering at the end of every street.
Eat flaky pastizzi and slow-cooked rabbit, and try the bittersweet local soda Kinnie.
Get to Valletta
Round trip from Prague, any dates in November 2026.
Day trips from Valletta
- Half day
Mdina
~30 min
The 'Silent City' — Malta's old hilltop capital of honey-coloured palaces and shadowed alleys behind intact walls, with views across half the island from the bastions. Best at dusk, after the day-trippers leave.
- Half day
Marsaxlokk
~30 minA fishing village whose harbour is filled with luzzu — brightly painted boats with eyes on their prows — and a Sunday fish market spilling along the quay.
- Half day
Gozo
~45 min
, ~1 h 15 min Malta's slower, greener sister island: the Ġgantija temples (older than the pyramids), the citadel of Victoria, salt pans cut into the rock and the inland sea at Dwejra.
- Day trip
Comino & Blue Lagoon
~1 hA nearly uninhabited islet with a sandbar lagoon of impossibly clear turquoise over white sand. Swim early or late — by midday the boats have filled it.
About Malta
Painted boats in limestone harbours
Honey-coloured cities, temples older than the pyramids, and diving off sheer cliffs — all on an island you can cross in an hour.
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