Cittadella
The Cittadella, also known as the Castello, is the citadel of Victoria on the island of Gozo, Malta. The area has been inhabited since the Bronze Age, and the site now occupied by the Cittadella is believed to have been the acropolis of the Punic-Roman city of Gaulos or Glauconis Civitas.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Fort
- Description: citadel in Victoria, Gozo
- Also known as: “Castello”, “Citadel”, “Citadel il-Kastell”, “Cittadella (Gozo)”, “Gran Castello”, and “Il-Kastell”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Cathedral of the Assumption and Historic House.
Cathedral of the Assumption
Church
Photo: Laredawg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 has been the seat of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Gozo since the formation of the diocese in 1864.
Historic House
Museum
Photo: Continentaleurope, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Gran Castello Historic House, formerly known as the Folklore Museum, is a historic house museum dedicated to Gozitan folklore in Victoria, Gozo, Malta.
Gozo Museum of Archaeology
Museum
The Gozo Museum of Archaeology is a museum in the Cittadella, the oldest part of the city, 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fontana and Kerċem.
Fontana
Village
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Fontana, as a local council, is an administrative unit of Malta, on the island of Gozo, with a population of 985 people.
Kerċem
Village
Photo: Sudika, Public domain.
Ta' Kerċem is a village in Malta, in the island of Gozo, with a population of 1,938 people as of March 2014. Ta' Kerċem evolved into a village community around chapel dedicated to Pope Gregory the Great built around 1581 and replaced in 1851 by a church which was enlarged to its present state between 1906 and 1910.
Munxar
Village
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Munxar is an administrative unit of Malta, which lies on the southern side of the island of Gozo. As of March 2014, its population was 1,454 people. Close to this village, there is Xlendi Bay, a popular tourist resort engulfed in a fjord-like inlet amongst high cliffs.
Cittadella
- Categories: citadel, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Victoria, Gozo, Malta, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Turkish—“Cittadella” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القلعة”
- Basque: “Citadella”
- Chinese: “奇塔德拉城堡”
- Corsican: “Citatella di Gozu”
- Czech: “Citadela ve Viktorii”
- Dutch: “Citadella”
- French: “citadelle de Gozo”
- French: “Citadelle de Gozo”
- Georgian: “ციტადელა (გოცო)”
- Georgian: “ციტადელა”
- German: “Cittadella (Gozo)”
- German: “Cittadella”
- German: “Zitadelle Victoria”
- German: “Zitadelle Von Victoria (Iċ-Ċittadella Tar-Rabat)”
- Hungarian: “Citadella”
- Italian: “Cittadella”
- Lithuanian: “Goco citadelė”
- Malayalam: “സിറ്റാഡെല്ല”
- Maltese: “Ċittadella”
- Persian: “سیتادل (گوزو)”
- Persian: “سیتادل”
- Polish: “Cittadella (Malta)”
- Polish: “Cittadella”
- Russian: “Цитадель”
- Serbian: “Цитадела (Гоцо)”
- Serbian: “Цитадела”
- Slovenian: “Citadela (Gozo)”
- Slovenian: “Citadela, Gozo”
- Slovenian: “Citadela”
- Spanish: “Ciudadela”
- Spanish: “La Ciudadela”
- Turkish: “Cittadella (Gozo)”
- Turkish: “Cittadella”
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Localities in the Area
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