Qué hay en La Valeta, Malta, a lo largo del año

Temporada media — vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan, un mes normal

• Festival

  Valletta Baroque Festival

  8–25 EneFestival de música

  Three weeks of baroque music in the buildings it was written for: St John's co-cathedral, the Manoel theatre, the auberges. The one good reason to be here in January. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Malta Carnival, vacaciones escolares en 3 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Malta Carnival

  1 Feb – 10 Mar · normalmenteMucha gente

  Five days of floats and grotesque masks in the streets below the city gate, a tradition the Knights already found in place. Nadur on Gozo runs the anarchic version the same week. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Malta Carnival, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Good Friday processions

  20 Mar – 25 Abr · normalmenteSemana Santa y PascuaCierres

  Holy Week peaks on Good Friday, a public holiday when shops shut and costumed processions carry life-size statues of the Passion through town. Valletta has its own; Zebbug, Qormi and Zejtun are a short bus ride away. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Malta Carnival (1 Feb – 10 Mar (normalmente))

Concurrido — Malta International Fireworks Festival, vacaciones escolares en 6 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Malta International Fireworks Festival

  14 Abr – 1 May · normalmenteLuces y fuegoMucha gente

  Maltese fireworks clubs and foreign teams compete over the Grand Harbour on several nights in late April. The Upper Barrakka and the Three Cities waterfront fill early, and plenty of people watch from boats. Fuente ↗

• Festival

  Valletta Green Festival

  26 Abr – 12 May · normalmenteGran festival

  For about ten days around the start of May, St George's Square is planted as a garden of trees, shrubs and flowers, with more installations at City Gate and outside Parliament. Free, and busiest at weekends. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Good Friday processions (20 Mar – 25 Abr (normalmente))

Concurrido — Malta International Fireworks Festival, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

En mayo no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Malta International Fireworks Festival (14 Abr – 1 May (normalmente)), Valletta Green Festival (26 Abr – 12 May (normalmente))

Concurrido — Festa season, vacaciones escolares en 4 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Temporada

  Sea warm enough to swim

  1 Jun – 10 Nov · normalmente

  Valletta itself has no beach; swimming means the rocks at Sliema across the harbour or a bus to the north. The water stays in by early November, long after the crowds have gone.

• Festival

  Festa season

  1 Jun – 15 SepFiesta religiosaMucha gente

  Every parish takes a weekend for its patron saint: banners across the streets, band marches and fireworks made in the village's own factory. Mid-August, for Santa Marija, is the loudest of them. Fuente ↗

Concurrido — Festa season, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

En julio no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 10 Nov (normalmente)), Festa season (1 Jun – 15 Sep)

Concurrido — Festa season, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

En agosto no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 10 Nov (normalmente)), Festa season (1 Jun – 15 Sep)

Máxima afluencia — Festa season, Notte Bianca

• Festival

  Notte Bianca

  25 Sep – 15 Oct · normalmenteFestival de artesMucha gente

  One October night when the palaces, ministries and museums open free until dawn and the whole city walks around inside them. The ferry from Sliema runs late for it. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 10 Nov (normalmente)), Festa season (1 Jun – 15 Sep)

Máxima afluencia — Notte Bianca, Rolex Middle Sea Race

• Festival

  Rolex Middle Sea Race

  14–26 Oct · normalmenteEvento deportivoMucha gente

  A 600-mile offshore race that starts and finishes in Grand Harbour, so the bastions become the grandstand for the cannon start. The fleet trickles back in over the following week. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 10 Nov (normalmente)), Notte Bianca (25 Sep – 15 Oct (normalmente))

Concurrido — Christmas in the Capital, vacaciones escolares en 2 de los mercados que lo llenan

• Festival

  Christmas in the Capital

  25 Nov – 31 DicNavidad y Año NuevoMucha gente

  The city strings lights along its main streets and runs a month of choirs, a Baby Jesus procession, a craft Christmas village on Merchants Street and, to finish, Malta's biggest New Year's Eve party. Fuente ↗

Sigue en marcha: Sea warm enough to swim (1 Jun – 10 Nov (normalmente))

Concurrido — Christmas in the Capital, vacaciones escolares en 7 de los mercados que lo llenan

En diciembre no empieza nada nuevo.

Sigue en marcha: Christmas in the Capital (25 Nov – 31 Dic)