Gozo
Gozo is an island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea. Smaller, more remote and less built-up than Malta itself, it is a popular destination in its own right, particularly for more mature British and German couples.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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Essential Destinations
Top destinations include Victoria and Għajnsielem.
Victoria
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Victoria, also called Rabat is in Gozo. It should not be confused with another town called Rabat on the main island of Malta.
Għajnsielem
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Għajnsielem is a city on Gozo, Malta. It includes the island of Comino. It has a population of 3,200 residents.
Xaghra
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Xagħra is in Gozo. It's an attractive village of 4,900 people that houses the Ġgantija temples, and is a 5-minute drive or a 30-minute walk to Ramla i Hamra beach and to Rabat, so if you don't have too much time to explore the island, this is a good place to use as a base.
Destinations to Discover
Explore places such as Xlendi.
Xlendi
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Xlendi is a town on Gozo's south coast. Formerly a picture perfect Mediterranean fishing village, it has now been expanded to several times its old size by modern hotels and apartments.
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ġgantija and Ta‘ Kola Windmill.
Ġgantija
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Ġgantija is a megalithic temple complex from the Neolithic era, on the Mediterranean island of Gozo in Malta. The Ġgantija temples are the earliest of the Megalithic Temples of Malta and are older than the pyramids of Egypt.
Ta‘ Kola Windmill
Museum
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Ta' Kola Windmill, Maltese: Il-Mitħna ta' Kola, is a windmill in the village of Xagħra, on the island of Gozo in the Maltese archipelago. It was built in 1725 by the Fondazione Vilhena of Grand Master Manoel de Vilhena, and was rebuilt in the 1780s.
Cathedral of the Assumption
Church
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The Cathedral of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven is a Roman Catholic cathedral in the Cittadella of Victoria in Gozo, Malta. 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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Xewkija and Żebbuġ.
Xewkija
Village
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Xewkija is an administrative unit and village of Malta, on the island of Gozo. The population of Xewkija is 3,300 as of March 2014.
Żebbuġ
Village
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Żebbuġ is a village and an administrative unit of Malta, in the northwest coast of the island of Gozo. It is located close to Għarb and Għasri and is built on two hilltop plateaus, Ta' Abram and Ix-Xagħra taż-Żebbuġ.
Nadur
Village
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Nadur is an administrative unit of Malta, located in the eastern part of the island of Gozo. Nadur is built on a plateau and is one of the largest localities in Gozo.
Gozo
- Type: Island
- Description: island of the Maltese archipelago in the Mediterranean Sea
- Also known as: “Calypso’s Island”, “Ghaudesh”, and “Gozzo Island”
- Category: landform
- Location: Malta, Europe
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Yakut—“Gozo” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Gozo”
- Arabic: “جزيرة غودش”
- Arabic: “غودش”
- Armenian: “Գոցո”
- Asturian: “Gozo”
- Asturian: “islla de Gozo”
- Azerbaijani: “Gozo”
- Azerbaijani: “Qozo”
- Basque: “Gozo uhartea”
- Belarusian: “Востраў Гоца”
- Belarusian: “Гоза”
- Belarusian: “Гоца”
- Bengali: “গোজো”
- Breton: “Gozo”
- Bulgarian: “Гозо”
- Catalan: “Ghawdex”
- Catalan: “Għawdex”
- Catalan: “Gozo”
- Catalan: “Gozzo”
- Cebuano: “Gozo”
- Chinese: “哥佐島”
- Chinese: “哥卓島”
- Chinese: “戈佐岛”
- Chinese: “戈佐島”
- Corsican: “Gozu”
- Croatian: “Gozo”
- Czech: “Gozo”
- Danish: “Ghawdex”
- Danish: “Gozo”
- Dutch: “Gozo”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جودش”
- Esperanto: “Għawdex”
- Esperanto: “Gozo”
- Estonian: “Ghawdex”
- Estonian: “Għawdex”
- Estonian: “Gozo”
- Faroese: “Gozo”
- Finnish: “Gozo”
- French: “Gozo”
- French: “Île de Goso”
- French: “Île de Gozo”
- Galician: “Gozo”
- Georgian: “გოცო”
- German: “Ghaudex”
- German: “Ghawdex”
- German: “Għawdex”
- German: “Gozo”
- Greek: “Γκόζο”
- Hebrew: “גוזו”
- Hungarian: “Għawdex”
- Hungarian: “Gozo”
- Indonesian: “Gozo”
- Interlingue: “Gozo”
- Irish: “Għawdex”
- Italian: “Ghawdex”
- Italian: “Għawdex”
- Italian: “Gozo”
- Japanese: “ゴゾ”
- Japanese: “ゴゾ島”
- Korean: “고조 섬”
- Korean: “고조섬”
- Latin: “Gaudus”
- Latin: “Gaulos”
- Latvian: “Audeša”
- Latvian: “Ghaudex”
- Latvian: “Ghawdex”
- Latvian: “Għawdex”
- Latvian: “Goco”
- Latvian: “Gozo”
- Lithuanian: “Gocas”
- Lithuanian: “Goco sala”
- Lithuanian: “Gozas”
- Lithuanian: “Gozo sala”
- Lithuanian: “Gozo”
- Low German: “Gozo”
- Luxembourgish: “Gozo”
- Maltese: “Għawdex”
- Marathi: “गोझो”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Gozo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Ghawdex”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Għawdex”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Gozo”
- Norwegian: “Gozo”
- Persian: “جزیره غودش”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ غودش”
- Persian: “جزیره گوزو”
- Persian: “جزیرهٔ گوزو”
- Polish: “Ghawdex”
- Polish: “Għawdex”
- Polish: “Gozo”
- Portuguese: “Gozo”
- Portuguese: “Ilha do Gozo”
- Pushto: “ګوزو سیمه”
- Romanian: “Gozo”
- Romanian: “Insula Gozo”
- Russian: “Гозо”
- Russian: “Гоцо”
- Russian: “Гоццо”
- Scots: “Gozo”
- Serbian: “Goco”
- Serbian: “Гоцо”
- Sicilian: “Gozo”
- Slovak: “Ghawdex”
- Slovak: “Gozo”
- Slovenian: “Gozo”
- Spanish: “Għawdex”
- Spanish: “Gozo”
- Swedish: “Ghawdex”
- Swedish: “Għawdex”
- Swedish: “Gozo”
- Tamil: “கோசோ”
- Tamil: “கோசோத் தீவு”
- Thai: “เกาะโกโซ”
- Turkish: “Gozo”
- Ukrainian: “Гоцо”
- Urdu: “گوزو”
- Vietnamese: “Gozo”
- Welsh: “Gozo”
- Western Armenian: “Կոզո”
- Wu Chinese: “戈佐岛”
- Yakut: “Гоцо”
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