Qawra
Qawra is a coastal town on Malta, in the region of St. Paul's Bay which consists of several small towns. The town is sandwiched between Buġibba directly to the south-west and Naxxar to the south-east on the other side of the bay.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Village
- Description: town in Malta
- Also known as: “Il-Qawra”, “Kaura”, and “Qawra, Malta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include St Paul’s Island and Malta National Aquarium.
St Paul’s Island
Islet
Photo: Jeffrey Sciberras, CC BY 3.0.
St Paul's Island, also known as Selmunett, is a small island off Selmun, Mellieħa near the north of the island of Malta. St Paul's Island is sometimes split into two islands by a shallow strait, and it is therefore sometimes referred to in the plural as St Paul's Islands.
Malta National Aquarium
Public aquarium
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Malta National Aquarium is the largest aquarium in Malta. It is located in Qawra, in the northern part of the island of Malta, and it hosts more than 175 different species of various animals, including fish, mollusca, reptiles and insects.
Tal-Qadi Temple
Archaeological site
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Tal-Qadi Temple is a megalithic temple in Salina, limits of Naxxar, Malta. It is in a very bad state of preservation, with only the temple's general outline still visible.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Buġibba and St. Paul’s Bay.
Buġibba
Photo: Berthold Werner, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Buġibba is a coastal town on Malta, in the region of St. Paul's Bay which consists of several small towns. The town is sandwiched between Burmarrad to the south, Qawra to the east and St. Paul's Bay to the east.
St. Paul’s Bay
Town
Photo: Yarah, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Saint Paul's Bay is a town located on the northeast coast of Malta in the Northern Region. It is a major residential and commercial area and a centre for shopping, bars, dining, and café life.
Burmarrad
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Burmarrad is a hamlet in St. Paul's Bay, Malta. The main heritage site is the San Pawl Milqi zone, where there is a chapel dedicated to St. Paul, built on the remains of a Roman temple dedicated to Apollo, and according to tradition the remains of the home of St.
Qawra
- Categories: town and locality
- Location: St. Paul’s Bay, Malta Island, Malta, Europe
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Latitude
35.9541° or 35° 57′ 15″ northLongitude
14.4198° or 14° 25′ 11″ eastElevation
24 metres (79 feet)Open location code
8F7PXC39+MWOpenStreetMap ID
node 5044930113OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Qawra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “القوراء”
- Asturian: “Qawra”
- Catalan: “Il-Qawra”
- Catalan: “Qawra”
- Czech: “Il-Qawra”
- Czech: “Qawra”
- Danish: “Il-Qawra”
- Danish: “Qawra”
- Dutch: “Qawra”
- French: “Qawra”
- German: “Il-Qawra”
- German: “Qawra”
- Hungarian: “Qawra”
- Italian: “Qawra”
- Maltese: “Qawra”
- Persian: “قورا”
- Polish: “Il-Qawra”
- Polish: “Qawra”
- Russian: “Аура”
- Slovak: “Il-Qawra”
- Slovak: “Qawra”
- Slovenian: “Qawra”
- Spanish: “Qawra”
- Swedish: “Qawra”
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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 Wikivoyage page “Qawra”. Photo: Sudika, CC BY-SA 3.0.