Grand Harbour
The Grand Harbour, also known as the Port of Valletta, is a natural harbour on the island of Malta. It has been substantially modified over the years with extensive docks, wharves, and fortifications.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Harbor
- Description: natural harbour in Valetta, Malta
- Also known as: “Great Harbour”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort St. Angelo and National Library.
Fort St. Angelo
Castle
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Fort St. Angelo is a bastioned fort in Birgu, Malta, located at the centre of the Grand Harbour. It was originally built in the medieval period as a castle called the Castrum Maris.
National Library
Library
The National Library of Malta, often known as the Bibliotheca, is a reference library in Republic Square, Valletta, Malta. It was founded by Grand Master Emmanuel de Rohan-Polduc in 1776 out of the collections of the knight Louis Guérin de Tencin.
Parliament Building
Government building
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The Parliament House is the meeting place of the Parliament of Malta located in Valletta, Malta. The building was constructed between 2011 and 2015 to designs by Renzo Piano as part of the City Gate Project, which also included building a new City Gate and converting the ruins of the Royal Opera House into an open-air theatre.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Senglea and Floriana Granaries.
Senglea
Town
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Senglea, also known by its title Città Invicta, is a fortified city in the Port Region of Malta. It is one of the Three Cities in the Grand Harbour area, the other two being Cospicua and Vittoriosa, and has a population of approximately 2,720 people.
Floriana
Town
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Floriana, also known by its title Borgo Vilhena, is a fortified town in the Port Region area of Malta, just outside the capital city Valletta. It has a population of 2,205 as of March 2014.
Grand Harbour
- Categories: natural harbor and transportation
- Location: Malta, Europe
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Grand Harbour” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “المرسى الكبير (مالطة)”
- Arabic: “الميناء الكبير”
- Azerbaijani: “Valetta limanı”
- Basque: “Portu Handia”
- Belarusian: “Вялікая гавань”
- Catalan: “Gran Port”
- Chinese: “格兰德港”
- Chinese: “瓦莱塔港”
- Dutch: “Grand Harbour”
- Esperanto: “Granda Haveno”
- French: “Grand Harbour”
- Georgian: “გრანდ ჰარბორი”
- German: “Grand Harbour”
- Hebrew: “הנמל הגדול”
- Hungarian: “Il-Port Il-Kbir”
- Italian: “Porto Grande”
- Japanese: “グランド・ハーバー”
- Latvian: “Lielā osta”
- Maltese: “Il-Port il-Kbir”
- Maltese: “Marsachibir (archaic)”
- Marathi: “ग्रँड हार्बर”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grand Harbour”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Grand Harbour”
- Norwegian: “Grand Harbour”
- Polish: “Wielki Port”
- Portuguese: “Grão-Porto”
- Russian: “Великая гавань”
- Slovenian: “Grand Harbour”
- Slovenian: “Veliko pristanišče, Valletta”
- Spanish: “Gran Puerto”
- Turkish: “Valletta Limanı”
- Ukrainian: “Велика гавань”
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