Being a port between the two continents, Malta was a very important naval base for the British. Naturally, this made it a target for the Axis powers in the second
A ħares is a Maltese spirit of some sort that protects the place it resides in. Stories about them tend to be connected to a specific location. The Maltese ħares
“I was born in 1925, a good year for grapes, and a bad year for bachelors”. So says the fourth Marquis Jose Juan Scicluna, the Baron of Ta’ Brija, in a