Hva som skjer i Valletta (Malta), Malta gjennom året

Skuldersesong — skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet, en helt vanlig måned

• Festival

  Valletta Baroque Festival

  8.–25. janMusikkfestival

  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. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Malta Carnival, skoleferie i 3 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Malta Carnival

  1. feb – 10. mar · vanligvisMye folk

  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. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Malta Carnival, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Good Friday processions

  20. mar – 25. apr · vanligvisPåske og stillehelgStengninger

  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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Malta Carnival (1. feb – 10. mar (vanligvis))

Travelt — Malta International Fireworks Festival, skoleferie i 6 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Malta International Fireworks Festival

  14. apr – 1. mai · vanligvisLys og ildMye folk

  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. Kilde ↗

• Festival

  Valletta Green Festival

  26. apr – 12. mai · vanligvisStor 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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Good Friday processions (20. mar – 25. apr (vanligvis))

Travelt — Malta International Fireworks Festival, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i mai.

Fortsatt på gang: Malta International Fireworks Festival (14. apr – 1. mai (vanligvis)), Valletta Green Festival (26. apr – 12. mai (vanligvis))

Travelt — Festa season, skoleferie i 4 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Sesong

  Sea warm enough to swim

  1. jun – 10. nov · vanligvis

  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. sepReligiøs høytidMye folk

  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. Kilde ↗

Travelt — Festa season, skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i juli.

Fortsatt på gang: Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 10. nov (vanligvis)), Festa season (1. jun – 15. sep)

Travelt — Festa season, skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i august.

Fortsatt på gang: Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 10. nov (vanligvis)), Festa season (1. jun – 15. sep)

Toppsesong — Festa season, Notte Bianca

• Festival

  Notte Bianca

  25. sep – 15. okt · vanligvisKunstfestivalMye folk

  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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 10. nov (vanligvis)), Festa season (1. jun – 15. sep)

Toppsesong — Notte Bianca, Rolex Middle Sea Race

• Festival

  Rolex Middle Sea Race

  14.–26. okt · vanligvisSportsarrangementMye folk

  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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 10. nov (vanligvis)), Notte Bianca (25. sep – 15. okt (vanligvis))

Travelt — Christmas in the Capital, skoleferie i 2 av markedene som fyller stedet

• Festival

  Christmas in the Capital

  25. nov – 31. desJul og nyttårMye folk

  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. Kilde ↗

Fortsatt på gang: Sea warm enough to swim (1. jun – 10. nov (vanligvis))

Travelt — Christmas in the Capital, skoleferie i 7 av markedene som fyller stedet

Ingenting nytt starter i desember.

Fortsatt på gang: Christmas in the Capital (25. nov – 31. des)