Victoria
Victoria, also called Rabat is in Gozo. It should not be confused with another town called Rabat on the main island of Malta.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: City with 6,900 residents
- Description: capital of Gozo, an island of the Maltese archipelago
- Also known as: “Il-Belt Victoria”, “Ir-Rabat”, “Rabat”, and “Victoria, Malta”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ġgantija and Gozo Museum of Archaeology.
Ġgantija
Photo: FritzPhotography, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Gozo Museum of Archaeology
Museum
The Gozo Museum of Archaeology is a museum in the Cittadella, the oldest part of the city, of Victoria in Gozo, Malta. The museum of Archaeology was opened in 1960 as the first public museum in Gozo and was known as the Gozo Museum.
Cathedral of the Assumption
Church
Photo: Laredawg, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Xaghra and Xlendi.
Xaghra
Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Xaghra 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.
Xlendi
Photo: Wusel007, CC BY-SA 3.0.
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.
Għajnsielem
Photo: Michelle Maria, CC BY 3.0.
Għajnsielem is a city on Gozo, Malta. It includes the island of Comino. It has a population of 3,200 residents.
Victoria
- Category: locality
- Location: Gozo, Malta, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.0429° or 36° 2′ 34″ northLongitude
14.2398° or 14° 14′ 24″ eastPopulation
6,900Elevation
90 metres (295 feet)Open location code
8F8P26VQ+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 129953609OpenStreetMap feature
place=cityGeoNames ID
8299745Wikidata ID
Q752348
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Victoria” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الرباط”
- Armenian: “Վիկտորիա”
- Basque: “Victòria”
- Belarusian: “Вікторыя”
- Bengali: “ভিক্টোরিয়া”
- Catalan: “Victòria”
- Cebuano: “Victoria”
- Central Kurdish: “ڤیکتۆریا، ماڵتا”
- Chechen: “Виктори”
- Chinese: “拉巴特”
- Chinese: “維多利亞”
- Chinese: “维多利亚”
- Czech: “Città Victoria”
- Czech: “Rabat”
- Czech: “Victoria”
- Danish: “Victoria”
- Dutch: “Rabat”
- Dutch: “Victoria”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فيكتوريا”
- Esperanto: “Città Victoria”
- Esperanto: “Ir-Rabat Għawdex”
- Esperanto: “Rabat”
- Esperanto: “Victoria Rabat”
- Esperanto: “Viktorio”
- Estonian: “Victoria”
- Finnish: “Victoria”
- French: “Citta Victoria”
- French: “Citta‘ Victoria”
- French: “Ir-Rabat”
- French: “Rabat (Victoria)”
- French: “Rabat”
- French: “Victoria”
- German: “Ir-Rabat Għawdex”
- German: “MT-45”
- German: “Victoria”
- Greek: “Βικτώρια”
- Gujarati: “વિક્ટોરિયા”
- Hebrew: “ויקטוריה”
- Hindi: “विक्टोरिया”
- Hungarian: “Rabat”
- Indonesian: “Victoria, Gozo”
- Indonesian: “Victoria”
- Irish: “Victoria”
- Italian: “Rabat”
- Italian: “Rabato del Castello”
- Italian: “Victoria”
- Japanese: “ヴィクトリア (ゴゾ)”
- Japanese: “ヴィクトリア (マルタ)”
- Japanese: “ラバト”
- Kannada: “ವಿಕ್ಟೋರಿಯ”
- Korean: “빅토리아”
- Latvian: “Viktorija”
- Lithuanian: “Viktorija”
- Malay: “Victoria”
- Malayalam: “വിക്ടോറിയ”
- Maltese: “Ir-Rabat Għawdex”
- Maltese: “Ir-Rabat”
- Maltese: “Rabat”
- Marathi: “व्हिक्टोरिया”
- Mingrelian: “ვიქტორია”
- Moroccan Arabic: “الرباط”
- Moroccan Arabic: “ڤيكطوريا”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Victoria (Gozo)”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Victoria”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rabat på Gozo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Victoria på Gozo”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Victoria på Malta”
- Norwegian: “Victoria”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Rabat-Victòria”
- Persian: “ویکتوریا، مالت”
- Persian: “ویکتوریا”
- Polish: “Rabat”
- Polish: “Victoria”
- Portuguese: “Cidade”
- Portuguese: “Victoria”
- Pushto: “ویکتوریا (مالتا)”
- Pushto: “ویکتوریا”
- Romanian: “Victoria, Malta”
- Romanian: “Victoria”
- Russian: “Виктория”
- Scots: “Ir-Rabat”
- Scots: “Rabat, Gozo”
- Scots: “Rabat”
- Scots: “Victoria, Gozo”
- Scots: “Victoria”
- Serbian: “Città Victoria”
- Serbian: “Viktorija”
- Serbian: “Викторија”
- Serbian: “Рабат”
- Sicilian: “Rabat”
- Sicilian: “Victoria”
- Silesian: “Rabat”
- Sinhala: “වික්ටෝරියා”
- Slovak: “Victoria”
- Slovenian: “Victoria, Gozo”
- Slovenian: “Victoria”
- Spanish: “Victoria”
- Spanish: “Victoria/Rabat”
- Swedish: “Victoria, Malta”
- Swedish: “Victoria”
- Tamil: “விக்டோரியா”
- Tatar: “Виктория (Мальта)”
- Tatar: “Виктория”
- Telugu: “విక్టోరియా”
- Thai: “วิคตอเรีย”
- Turkish: “Victoria, Malta”
- Turkish: “Victoria”
- Ukrainian: “Вікторія”
- Urdu: “وکٹوریہ، گوزو”
- Vietnamese: “Victoria”
- Welsh: “Victoria / Rabat”
- Welsh: “Victoria, Gozo”
- Welsh: “Victoria”
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