Malta is a small island, strategically set in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea between Sicily and North Africa. Only 18 miles long and with a population of over 400,000, the island of Malta is unrivalled in its wealth of History, developed over thousands of years of successive invasions by Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Normans and the Spanish , French and British. For almost 300 years, Malta was the sovereign domain of the crusading order of the knights of Malta who were responsible for many of its prestigious landmarks. Read more History of Malta. |