In the wake of the Great Siege of 1565, the Order of St. John erected a new majestic city planned in a grid-formation and with majestic palaces and buildings within > > >
It was 6.50 a.m on Tuesday, 11 June 1940, a day after Italian dictator Benito Mussolini had declared war on Britain and France, that ten Italian war planes took part in the first air-raid on the Maltese Islands. At first, people remained > > >