Cittadella

The Cittadella, also known as the Castello, is the citadel of Victoria on the island of , 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.
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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.

Church
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The of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Cittadella of Victoria in , . 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.

Museum
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The Gran Castello , formerly known as the Folklore Museum, is a museum dedicated to Gozitan folklore in Victoria, , .

Museum
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The is a in the Cittadella, the oldest part of the city, of Victoria in , . 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 Kercem.

Village
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, as a local council, is an administrative unit of , on the island of . The population of was 1,160 in July 2024. This included 630 males and 530 females; 899 Maltese nationals and 261 foreign nationals.

Village
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Ta' Kerċem is a village in , in the island of , 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.

Village
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is an administrative unit of , which lies on the southern side of the island of . As of March 2014, its population was 1,454 people. Close to this village, there is Bay, a popular tourist resort engulfed in a fjord-like inlet amongst high cliffs.

Cittadella

Latitude
36.04639° or 36° 2′ 47″ north
Longitude
14.23972° or 14° 14′ 23″ east
Elevation
126 metres (413 feet)
Open location code
8F8P26WQ+HV
Geo­Names ID
2562925
Wiki­data ID
Q867647
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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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