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We have tried to create a relaxing ambience for the sitting
room lit by Morroccan wall lamps with wicker chairs seated around a coffee table. Time for reflection, reading a classic
novel, a siesta or planning the day ahead.
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A short history of Malta
- 5000 BC First settlers arrive in Malta. 3200 BC megalithic temples of Hagar Qim, Ggantija and Mnajdra are built. 2000
BC The Bronze Age - end of temple building phase, fortified villages are built.
- The Roman Period - from 218 BC. AD 60 St Paul is shipwrecked & converts inhabitants to Christianity.
- AD 395 Goths and Vandals descend on the islands. AD 870 Arabs arrive and the Malti language develops.
- 1090 Europeans take power, initially the Normans annex Malta to the Kingdom of Sicily then passes to the Swabian (German)
Kings between 1194-1266, to the French House of Anjou between 1266-1283, the Aragonese to 1530 and the Spanish from 1479-1516.
- The Knights of St John receive the islands as a gift from Charles V of Spain in 1530 who rule and protect the islands,
though unsuccesfully fail to protect the Gozitans from Corsairs of the Barbary Coast who enslave the population in 1551. Ottoman
Turks are repelled in 1565 and in 1683.
- The Napoleonic Period lasts a mere 2 years from 1798 until Britain and Naples intercede and France relinquishes its claim.
- Malta and Gozo become a British Crown Colony from 1814 until idependence is achieved in 1964. During this period Malta
was key to the war effort in the Meditteranean during World Wars I and II, recognised by receiving the George Cross for heroism.
- 1974 Malta beomes a Republic but remaining within the British Commonwealth.
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