True to Mediterranean culture, summer is also the time of traditional village feasts of which several are close by to this unique Maltese farmhouse. The noise and splendour of Malta's village feasts  have never failed to mesmerise and leave all visitors captivated.

This is after all, the essential aspects of the Maltese life style - a blend of noise and colour.

 5000 BC

Both Malta and Gozo are inundated with prehistoric stone age temples, and other indelible marks left by these ancient peoples. Around 3,800 BC for the first time that we know of, an ancient race of people started moving huge stones to enclose space in the way they pre-designed it. With precision and grace, they perfected engineering marvels on the islands of Malta. Sightlines and symmetry are still exquisitely honoured; humankind’s oldest calendar still marks equinox and solstice sunrise after more than 5,000 years.

The structures, which we now know are far older than Stonehenge and the pyramids, are important solid evidence of the Mediterranean’s earliest civilization. 

 Why were they built is still a mystery.  The spirals, painstakingly carved in relief and painted in red ochre, imply an ideology that was already firmly established long before the pantheon of the Nile. The jury is firmly out on what they are all about?

  870 - 1964AD

Malta in 870 AD falls to the Aghlabid Arabs invading from Sicily led by Admiral Ahmad bin-Umar also known as Habasi. Apart from a relatively harmonious existence little is known about the period of Arab rule.
They were ousted by the Normans in 1060. In 1530 Emperor Charles V gives Malta in perpetuity to the Order of St John of Jerusalem (Knights of Malta) for the price of a falcon to be paid annually  to the Emperor's Viceroy in Sicily. The knights had a torrid time building defenses and warding of attacks from the Ottoman forces. The most famous was the Great Siege in 1565.
In 1798 Napoleon dispersed the knights who offered minimal resistence and set up a French Garrison. The Maltese revolted against the oppressive French rule and asked the British for assistance. Malta confirmed as a British Colony in 1814 after rejecting the opportunity to have the knights re-occupy the islands.

 1964 - Malta becomes independent from Great Britain