Bighi in Il-Kalkara
Destination Guide Malta

HMS Jersey (F72)

HMS Jersey (F72) was a J-class destroyer of the Royal Navy laid down by J. Samuel White and Company at Cowes on the Isle of Wight on 20 September 1937, launched on 26 September 1938 and commissioned on 28 April 1939. Jersey struck an aircraft-dropped mine off Malta's Grand Harbour on 2 May 1941 and sank next to the Grand Harbour breakwater. Thirty-five crew members were killed.

Located at 35.9, 14.5233 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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J, K and N-class destroyers of the Royal Navy, Ships built in the United Kingdom, 1938 ships, World War II destroyers of the United Kingdom, World War II shipwrecks in the Mediterranean, Maritime incidents in 1941, Ships sunk by mines

Fort Rinella

Fort Rinella is a Victorian fortification on the island of Malta. It is also referred to as the Rinella Battery in some maps and publications.

Located at 35.8944, 14.5325 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, Coastal artillery, History of Malta, Government buildings completed in 1886, Infrastructure completed in 1886

Fort Ricasoli

Fort Ricasoli is a large fortification on the island of Malta. The fort was built by the Knights of Malta between 1670 and 1693.

Located at 35.8975, 14.5258 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, 17th-century architecture

Fort St Angelo

Fort St Angelo is a large fortification in Birgu, Malta, right at the centre of Grand Harbour.

Located at 35.8919, 14.5183 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, Maltese architecture, Royal Navy bases outside the United Kingdom, World War II sites in Malta

Fort Saint Michael

Fort St Michael was a fortification on the island of Malta. A fort of that name was built by the Knights of Malta between 1551 and 1565 on the peninsula then known as Isla St Michael formed by Dockyard Creek and French Creek in Grand Harbour. This area is still known as L-Isla, but is now occupied by the fortified city of Senglea.

Located at 35.8844, 14.5189 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Polygonal forts in Malta, Demolished buildings and structures, Buildings and structures completed in 1565

Grand Harbour

Grand Harbour is a natural harbour on the island of Malta. It has been used as a harbour since at least Phoenician times. The natural harbour has been greatly improved with extensive docks and wharves, and has been massively fortified.

Located at 35.895, 14.5206 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Geography of Malta, Ports and harbours of Malta

Lower Barrakka Gardens

The Lower Barakka Gardens (Il-Barrakka t'Isfel) is a garden in Valletta, Malta, and it is twinned with the Upper Barrakka Gardens in the same city. It offers a magnificent view of the Grand Harbour and the Breakwater. There are two monuments, one dedicated to Alexander Ball and another in remembrance of the Great Siege of Malta.

Located at 35.8975, 14.5178 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Gardens in Malta, Valletta

Inquisitor's Palace

Not to be confused with the Palace of the Holy Office in the Vatican. The Inquisitor's Palace is a museum sited in the heart of Birgu, Vittoriosa, Malta. The palace was erected as the civil law courts of the Order of St John between 1530s and 1571 then became the inquisitor’s residence from 1574 until 1798. The Inquisitor’s Palace is now the "flagship" of Maltese Ethnography.

Located at 35.8872, 14.5228 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Museums in Malta, Religious museums

Malta Maritime Museum

The Malta Maritime Museum is housed within the Old Naval bakery in Vittoriosa, it drafts Malta’s maritime history which is tightly bound to Mediterranean Sea. It also illustrates the global nature of seafaring and its impact on society from July 1992. The museum houses numerous artefacts highlighting different epochs, shaping Maltese seafaring trough paint, charts, evidence and sea technology evolution. So it shows Malta’s maritime history from prehistory to the present day.

Located at 35.8876, 14.5208 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Maritime museums, Museums in Malta, History of the Mediterranean

RNH Bighi

RNH Bighi, also known as Bighi Hospital, was a major naval hospital located in the small town of Kalkara on the island of Malta. It served the eastern Mediterranean in the 19th and 20th centuries and, in conjunction with the RN Memorial Hospital at Imtarfa, contributed to the nursing and medical care of casualties whenever hostilities occurred in the Mediterranean.

Located at 35.8931, 14.5245 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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History of Malta, Hospitals in Malta

Our Lady of Victories Parish Church

Our Lady of Victories Parish Church is the parish church of Senglea, Malta. It is dedicated to the Nativity of the Virgin Mary, and was most probably built by architect Vittorio Cassar in 1580 as a monument to the Christian Victory after the Great Siege of 1565. Senglea became a parish in 1581, and was consecrated on 20 October 1743. On 21 May 1786, Pope Pius VI declared the church to be a "collegiata insignis", while in 1921, Pope Benedict XV honoured the church with the title of Basilica.

Located at 35.8857, 14.5181 (Lat. / Lng.), about 1 miles away.
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Churches in Malta, Religious buildings completed in 1580

St. Lawrence's Church, Vittoriosa

St. Lawrence's Church is an old Church situated in Birgu in Malta. In the 'Rollo' (inventory) of the benefices of the churches and chapels in Malta and Gozo, held by Bishop de Mello in 1436, ten established chapels are mentioned, amongst which the Church of San Lorenzo a Mare. When the Order of Saint John first settled in Malta in 1530, all of their langues were based in Birgu, so the Church of Saint Laurence was used as the Order's first Conventual Church in Malta.

Located at 35.8874, 14.5215 (Lat. / Lng.), about 0 miles away.
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Churches in Malta