Price includes 4 hours tour with licensed guide, entrance ticket to Ghar Dalam, entrance ticket to Hagar Qim & Mnajdra temples
A Malta Temples Tour is a must for anyone who travels to this beautiful Mediterranean island. Malta and Gozo are home to seven megalithic temples, all of which are designated as world heritage sites by UNESCO. These megalithic temples date back 5500 years ago and are the oldest free-standing stone structures in the world, even older than the Stonehenge and the Pyramids. It is also home to more than thirty other temples, all of which reflect Malta’s rich past.
You will first drive to Ghar Dalam. Ghar Dalam’s relevance as a prehistoric site was discovered in the latter half of the 19th Century with a series of excavations unearthing animal bones as well as human remains and artifacts. The Cave is a highly important site for its Palaeontology, archaeology and ecology.The history of the cave and that of the Islands can be decoded from Ghar Dalam’s stratigraphy. The lowermost layers, It was here that the earliest evidence of human settlement on Malta, some 7,400 years ago, was discovered.
You will then visit Hagar Qim & Mnajdra Temples. This megalithic complex is located atop a hill on the southern edge of the island, on a ridge capped in soft globigerina limestone.
A few hundred metres from the temple is one of the thirteen watchtowers built by Grand Master Marin de Redin, called Hamrija Tower.
Following this tour, you will be dropped off at your hotel.