På gång i Valletta (Malta), Malta under året

Mellansäsong — skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen, en helt vanlig månad

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  Valletta Baroque Festival

  8–25 janMusikfestival

  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. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Malta Carnival, skollov i 3 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Malta Carnival

  1 feb – 10 mar · vanligtvisTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Malta Carnival, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Good Friday processions

  20 mar – 25 apr · vanligtvisPåsk & stilla veckanStängningar

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Malta Carnival (1 feb – 10 mar (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Malta International Fireworks Festival, skollov i 6 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Malta International Fireworks Festival

  14 apr – 1 maj · vanligtvisLjus & eldTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

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  Valletta Green Festival

  26 apr – 12 maj · vanligtvisStor 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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Good Friday processions (20 mar – 25 apr (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Malta International Fireworks Festival, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i maj.

Pågår fortfarande: Malta International Fireworks Festival (14 apr – 1 maj (vanligtvis)), Valletta Green Festival (26 apr – 12 maj (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Festa season, skollov i 4 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

• Säsong

  Sea warm enough to swim

  1 jun – 10 nov · vanligtvis

  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.

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  Festa season

  1 jun – 15 sepReligiös högtidTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Mycket folk — Festa season, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i juli.

Pågår fortfarande: Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 10 nov (vanligtvis)), Festa season (1 jun – 15 sep)

Mycket folk — Festa season, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i augusti.

Pågår fortfarande: Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 10 nov (vanligtvis)), Festa season (1 jun – 15 sep)

Mest folk — Festa season, Notte Bianca

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  Notte Bianca

  25 sep – 15 okt · vanligtvisKulturfestivalTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 10 nov (vanligtvis)), Festa season (1 jun – 15 sep)

Mest folk — Notte Bianca, Rolex Middle Sea Race

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  Rolex Middle Sea Race

  14–26 okt · vanligtvisSportevenemangTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 10 nov (vanligtvis)), Notte Bianca (25 sep – 15 okt (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Christmas in the Capital, skollov i 2 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

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  Christmas in the Capital

  25 nov – 31 decJul & nyårTrångt

  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. Källa ↗

Pågår fortfarande: Sea warm enough to swim (1 jun – 10 nov (vanligtvis))

Mycket folk — Christmas in the Capital, skollov i 7 av marknaderna som fyller platsen

Inget nytt börjar i december.

Pågår fortfarande: Christmas in the Capital (25 nov – 31 dec)