Free Walking Sightseeing Tour #1 in Victoria, Malta

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Tour Facts

Number of sights 5 sights
Distance 0.5 km
Ascend 13 m
Descend 15 m

Explore Victoria in Malta with this free self-guided walking tour. The map shows the route of the tour. Below is a list of attractions, including their details.

Individual Sights in Victoria

Sight 1: Gozo Nature Museum

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Gozo Nature Museum The original uploader was Yoruno at Italian Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 3.0

The Gozo Nature Museum, formerly known as the Natural Science Museum, is a museum in Victoria, on the island of Gozo, Malta. It has been open to public since 1991. It is housed in a group of houses within the Cittadella, the oldest part of the city. These houses date back to various ages: the older one, which was an inn, to 1495; the other to the 17th century.

Wikipedia: Gozo Nature Museum (EN)

43 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 2: Il-Ħabs il-Qadim

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The Old Prison is located in the Citadel of Victoria, Gozo, adjacent to the Courts of Justice to which it was originally connected. Today, the prison complex is divided into two different buildings: the entrance hall, which had been a common cell in the 19th century, and a free-standing block with six individual cells.

Wikipedia: Old Prison (Victoria) (EN)

74 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 3: Cathedral of the Assumption

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The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Cittadella of Victoria in Gozo, Malta. The cathedral is dedicated to the Assumption of Mary, and it has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gozo since the formation of the diocese in 1864.

Wikipedia: Cathedral of the Assumption, Gozo (EN)

82 meters / 1 minutes

Sight 4: Mużew tal-Arkeoloġija Għawdxija

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The Gozo Museum of Archaeology is a museum in the Cittadella of Victoria in Gozo, Malta. The museum of Archaeology was opened in 1960 as the first public museum in Gozo and was known as the Gozo Museum. The museum was redesigned and reopened in 1986 as the Archaeology Museum of Gozo. Today it is known as the Gozo Museum of Archaeology or the National Museum of Archaeology. The museum features archaeological artifacts and relics and displays covering the cultural history of the Island of Gozo from the prehistoric era to the early modern period. Its exhibits include the Maymūnah Stone.

Wikipedia: Gozo Museum of Archaeology (EN), Website

320 meters / 4 minutes

Sight 5: St. George's Basilica

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St. George's Basilica or the Basilica and Collegiate Parish Church of Saint George, also simply known as San Ġorġ in Maltese, is a historic Baroque church situated in the middle of Gozo, the second largest island in the Maltese archipelago, and is surrounded by a maze of old narrow streets and alleys. Today's basilica was built between 1672 and 1678.

Wikipedia: St. George's Basilica, Malta (EN)

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