On the fifth day of our stay in Malta we went to the old capital of Malta. Only94 people live in Mdina nowadays and most of them are rich one or even from royal families. A ancestor of the Spanish royal family still lives in the biggest mansion of Mdina which has about 50 rooms.
The nuns of St. Peter’s monastery are not allowed to leave the building at any times. The windows are really high up the walls, so that the female inhabitants can’t have contact with the people from outside.
Most houses are built in the Barok style.
There are three different types of churches: one with a normal cross is a “normal” church, one with a double cross is a cathedral which means “mother church”, one with a triple cross is a Basilika.
The oldest palace in Mdina is the Santa Sovinia from 1233. The Maltese people use Maltese’ only natural resource to build their houses, the limestone. The grey film on the outer walls helps the walls to stay stabilized. The first gate of Mdina is called the Gate of the Greeks.
The French came to Malta in 1798 to stay for two years and in 1800 the British forced them off the island. Until 1979 Malta was a British colony and it was then that they became independent.
Saint Paul, the national saint, baptized and healed people in Malta.
In Malta there are over 400 churches and even one mosque.
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