Fgura

Fgura is a town in the Port Region of . It has a population of 13,066 as of 2021. Its northern fringes are bordered by the of fortifications while it merges with the towns of to the east and and to the West.
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  • Type: Town with 11,700 residents
  • Description: town in Malta
  • Also known as: “Kunsill Lokali Fgura”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Parish Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum.

Church
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The Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church is a late 20th century Parish church in Fgura, Malta. It was designed in 1981 by Architect and Engineer Godfrey Azzopardi and built in 1988.

Museum
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The Hypogeum of Ħal Saflieni is a Neolithic subterranean structure dating to the Saflieni phase in Maltese prehistory, located in , . It is often simply referred to as the Hypogeum, literally meaning "underground" in Greek.

Protected area
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The Ħal Tarxien Prehistoric Complex is an archaeological complex in , within the Port region of . They date to approximately 3400 BC. The site was accepted as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1992 along with the other Megalithic temples on the island of Malta.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Cottonera and St.Helens Gate.

Photo: Dirk.heldmaier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a group of three adjacent cities in with a population of about 11,000 : Cospicua, Vittoriosa and Senglea. They are collectively also known as the Three Cities.

Locality
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St. Helen's Gate, also known as Porta dei Mortari, is the main of the Santa Margherita Lines, located in , . It was built in the Baroque style in 1736 to designs of Charles François de Mondion, during the magistracy of Grand Master António Manoel de Vilhena.

Locality
was an important naval base in the in in the Mediterranean Sea. The shipyard infrastructure is still in operation and is now operated by Palumbo Shipyards.

Fgura

Latitude
35.87283° or 35° 52′ 22″ north
Longitude
14.5208° or 14° 31′ 15″ east
Population
11,700
Elevation
64 metres (210 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT FGU
Open location code
8F7PVGFC+48
Open­Street­Map ID
node 129953073
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2563115
Wiki­data ID
Q44388
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Welsh—“Fgura” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Fgura”
  • Albanian: “Fgura”
  • Arabic: “الفكورة”
  • Arabic: “الفَكُورَةُ”
  • Arabic: “فغورا”
  • Aragonese: “Fgura”
  • Armenian: “Ֆգուրա”
  • Asturian: “Fgura”
  • Basque: “Fgura”
  • Bavarian: “Fgura”
  • Belarusian: “Фгура”
  • Bengali: “ফেগুরা”
  • Bosnian: “Fgura”
  • Catalan: “Fgura”
  • Cebuano: “Fgura”
  • Cebuano: “Il-Fgura”
  • Central Kurdish: “فگورا”
  • Chinese: “弗古拉”
  • Croatian: “Fgura”
  • Czech: “Fgura”
  • Danish: “Fgura”
  • Dutch: “Fgura”
  • Esperanto: “Fgura”
  • Estonian: “Fgura”
  • Faroese: “Fgura”
  • Finnish: “Fgura”
  • French: “Fgura”
  • French: “Il-Fgura”
  • Galician: “Fgura”
  • German: “Fgura”
  • German: “MT-08”
  • Greek: “Φγκούρα”
  • Gujarati: “ફગુરા”
  • Hindi: “फागुरा”
  • Hungarian: “Fgura”
  • Icelandic: “Fgura”
  • Indonesian: “Fgura”
  • Italian: “Fgura”
  • Italian: “Figura”
  • Japanese: “フグーラ”
  • Kannada: “ಫಾಗೂರ”
  • Korean: “프구라”
  • Latin: “Fgura”
  • Latvian: “Fgura”
  • Lithuanian: “Fgura”
  • Low German: “Fgura”
  • Luxembourgish: “Fgura”
  • Malay: “Fgura”
  • Maltese: “Fgura”
  • Maltese: “Il-Fgura”
  • Marathi: “फगुरं”
  • Minangkabau: “Fgura”
  • Mingrelian: “ფგურა”
  • Northern Frisian: “Fgura”
  • Northern Sami: “Fgura”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Fgura”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fgura”
  • Norwegian: “Fgura”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Fgura”
  • Persian: “فگورا”
  • Polish: “Fgura”
  • Portuguese: “Fgura”
  • Romanian: “Fgura”
  • Romansh: “Fgura”
  • Russian: “Фгура”
  • Scots: “Fgura”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Fgura”
  • Sicilian: “Fgura”
  • Sinhala: “එෆ්ගුරා”
  • Slovak: “Fgura”
  • Slovenian: “Fgura”
  • Spanish: “Fgura”
  • Swedish: “Fgura”
  • Swedish: “Il-Fgura”
  • Swiss German: “Fgura”
  • Tamil: “பிகுரா”
  • Telugu: “ఎఫ్‌గురా”
  • Thai: “ฟกูรา”
  • Turkish: “Fgura”
  • Ukrainian: “Фгура”
  • Urdu: “فگورا”
  • Vietnamese: “Fgura”
  • Welsh: “Fgura”
  • “Fgura”

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