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Balzan

Balzan

Balzan is a municipality in the of , and together with and , forms part of the "Three Villages". The village originally consisted of a group of small dwellings and farms but eventually grew, becoming a parish in the 17th century.
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Places of Interest

Highlights include Parish Church of Our Lady of Annunciation and San Anton Palace.

Church
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Castle
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is a palace in , , that currently serves as the official residence of the president of Malta. It was originally built in the early 17th century as a country villa for Antoine de Paule, a knight of the Order of St.

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The is a belvedere in , . It was built in the 19th century as a folly within a private garden, and it is now located on a roundabout.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Lija and Attard.

Village
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is a small village in the Eastern Region of . Together with and Balzan, it forms part of Malta's "Three Villages". has a baroque and seven other small chapels.

Town
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is a locality in the of . Together with Balzan and , it forms part of the "Three Villages" and has been inhabited since the Classical Period.

Town
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is a city in the Eastern Region of . It is the second most populous on the , with 24,356 inhabitants as of 2020. The town consists of five autonomous parishes: Saint Helen, Saint Joseph the Worker, Our Lady of Mount Carmel, and San Gorg Preca.

Balzan

Latitude
35.89861° or 35° 53′ 55″ north
Longitude
14.45102° or 14° 27′ 4″ east
Population
3,870
Elevation
46 metres (151 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT BAL
Open location code
8F7PVFX2+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
node 804649276
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2563217
Wiki­data ID
Q789794
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Balzan” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “رحل بلزان”
  • Arabic: “رَحْلُ بَلْزَانَ”
  • Armenian: “Բալցան”
  • Basque: “Balzan”
  • Belarusian: “Бальцан”
  • Bengali: “বালযান”
  • Catalan: “Balzan”
  • Cebuano: “Balzan”
  • Chinese: “巴尔灿”
  • Croatian: “Balzan”
  • Danish: “Balzan”
  • Dutch: “Balzan”
  • Esperanto: “Balzan”
  • Esperanto: “Ħal Balzan”
  • Finnish: “Balzan”
  • Finnish: “Ħal Balzan”
  • French: “Balzan”
  • French: “Hal-Balzan”
  • German: “Balzan”
  • German: “Ħal Balzan”
  • German: “MT-02”
  • Greek: “Μπαλζάν”
  • Gujarati: “બાલ્ઝાન”
  • Hebrew: “פרס בלצן”
  • Hindi: “बाल्ज़न”
  • Hungarian: “Balzan”
  • Indonesian: “Balzan”
  • Italian: “Balzan”
  • Italian: “Casal Balzan”
  • Japanese: “バルザン”
  • Japanese: “バルツァーン”
  • Kannada: “ಬಾಲ್ಜನ್”
  • Korean: “발찬”
  • Latvian: “Balzana”
  • Lithuanian: “Balzanas”
  • Malay: “Balzan”
  • Maltese: “Balzan”
  • Maltese: “Casal Balzan”
  • Maltese: “Ħal Balzan”
  • Maltese: “Ħal-Balzan”
  • Marathi: “बाल्झान”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Balzan”
  • Norwegian: “Balzan”
  • Persian: “بالزان”
  • Polish: “Balzan”
  • Portuguese: “Balzan”
  • Russian: “Бальцан”
  • Sicilian: “Balzan”
  • Sinhala: “බල්සාන්”
  • Spanish: “Balzan”
  • Swedish: “Balzan”
  • Tamil: “பால்சன்”
  • Telugu: “బాల్జాన్”
  • Thai: “บอลซาน”
  • Turkish: “Balzan”
  • Ukrainian: “Бальцан”
  • Urdu: “بالزان”
  • Vietnamese: “Balzan”

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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 “Balzan”. Photo: Alecastorina93, CC BY-SA 3.0.