Cospicua
Cospicua or Bormla is a double-fortified harbour city in the Port Region of Malta. It served as the principal port of Phoenician Malta and, through Greek, Latin, and Arabic, may have given its name to the island and country.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: SpectreOfMalta, CC BY-SA 4.0.
- Type: Town with 5,400 residents
- Description: city in Malta
- Also known as: “Bir Mula”, “Bormla”, “Bormola”, “Burmola”, “Città Cospicua”, “Città Cottonera”, “Civitas Cottonera”, and “Cospiosa”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fort Verdala and Malta at War Museum.
Fort Verdala
Photo: Continentaleurope, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Fort Verdala, also known as Verdala Barracks, is a fortified barracks in Cospicua, Malta. It was built by the British in the 1850s within part of the bastions of the 17th century Santa Margherita Lines.
Malta at War Museum
Museum
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Malta at War Museum is a museum in Birgu, Malta, which is dedicated to Malta's role in World War II. The museum is housed within a barrack block and a rock-hewn air-raid shelter within Couvre Porte Counterguard.
Maritime Museum
Museum
The Malta Maritime Museum is a maritime museum in Birgu, Malta. It is housed in the former Royal Naval Bakery, which was built in the 1840s as the main bakery for the Mediterranean Fleet.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include St.Helens Gate and Birgu.
St.Helens Gate
Locality
Photo: Continentaleurope, CC BY-SA 4.0.
St. Helen's Gate, also known as Porta dei Mortari, is the main gate of the Santa Margherita Lines, located in Cospicua, Malta. 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.
Birgu
Town
Photo: Xwejnusgozo, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Birgu, also known by its title Città Vittoriosa, is an old fortified city on the south side of the Grand Harbour in the Port Region of Malta. The city occupies a promontory of land with Fort Saint Angelo at its head and the city of Cospicua at its base.
Cottonera
Photo: Dirk.heldmaier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cottonera is a group of three adjacent cities in Malta with a population of about 11,000 : Cospicua, Vittoriosa and Senglea. They are collectively also known as the Three Cities.
Cospicua
Latitude
35.88258° or 35° 52′ 57″ northLongitude
14.52272° or 14° 31′ 22″ eastPopulation
5,400Elevation
39 metres (128 feet)United Nations Location Code
MT COSOpen location code
8F7PVGMF+23OpenStreetMap ID
node 130931433OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
This page is based on OpenStreetMap, GeoNames, Wikidata, Wikimedia Commons, and Wikipedia.
We’d love your help improving our open data sources. Thank you for contributing.
Satellite Map
Discover Cospicua from above in high-definition satellite imagery.
In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Cospicua” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كوسبيكو”
- Armenian: “Բորմլա”
- Azerbaijani: “Bormla”
- Azerbaijani: “Kospikua”
- Basque: “Cospicua”
- Bengali: “কসপিকোয়া”
- Catalan: “Cospicua”
- Cebuano: “Bormla”
- Central Kurdish: “کۆسپیکوا”
- Chechen: “Бормла”
- Chinese: “科斯皮夸”
- Danish: “Cospicua”
- Dutch: “Bormla”
- Dutch: “Cospicua”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كوسبيكو”
- Esperanto: “Bormla”
- Esperanto: “Cospicua”
- Finnish: “Cospicua”
- French: “Bormla”
- French: “Citta Cospicua”
- French: “Citta‘ Cospicua”
- French: “Cospicua”
- German: “Bormla”
- German: “Cospicua”
- German: “MT-06”
- Greek: “Κοσπίκουα”
- Gujarati: “કોસ્પિક્યુઆ”
- Hebrew: “קוספיקאה”
- Hindi: “कोस्पिकुआ”
- Hungarian: “Bormla”
- Indonesian: “Cospicua”
- Italian: “Burmola”
- Italian: “Cospicua”
- Japanese: “コスピクア”
- Japanese: “ボルムラ”
- Kannada: “ಕಾಸ್ಪಿಕ್ಯುವಾ”
- Korean: “보름라”
- Latin: “Birmula”
- Latvian: “Bormla”
- Lithuanian: “Bormla”
- Lithuanian: “Kospikua”
- Malay: “Cospicua”
- Maltese: “Bormla”
- Maltese: “Cospicua”
- Marathi: “कॉस्पिकए”
- Mingrelian: “ბორმლა”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Cospicua”
- Norwegian: “Cospicua”
- Persian: “کاسپیکوا”
- Polish: “Bormla”
- Polish: “Cospicua”
- Portuguese: “Cospicua”
- Russian: “Бормла”
- Russian: “Коспикуа”
- Serbian: “Bormla”
- Serbian: “Ċittà Cospicua”
- Serbian: “Бормла”
- Sicilian: “Bormla”
- Sicilian: “Cospicua”
- Sicilian: “Cospicuna”
- Silesian: “Cospicua”
- Sinhala: “කොස්පිකුවා”
- Slovenian: “Bormla”
- Spanish: “Bormla”
- Spanish: “Cospicua”
- Swedish: “Bormla”
- Swedish: “Cospicua”
- Tamil: “காசிபிக்குவா”
- Telugu: “కాస్పికువా”
- Thai: “คอสปิกัว”
- Turkish: “Cospicua”
- Ukrainian: “Бормла”
- Urdu: “کوسپیکوا”
- Vietnamese: “Cospicua”
Places with the Same Name
Discover other places named “Cospicua”.
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Santa Margherita Bastion and Xatt ir-Riżq.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Suq Bonnici and Bir Mula Heritage Museum.
Malta: Must-Visit Destinations
Delve into Valletta, Mdina, Sliema, and Victoria.
Curious Places to Discover
Uncover intriguing places from every corner of the globe.
About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Cospicua”. Photo: SpectreOfMalta, CC BY-SA 4.0.