Xaghra
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 4,890 residents
- Description: town on the island of Gozo in Malta
- Also known as: “Ix-Xaghra”, “Kaċċa”, “Kacha”, “Shaghra”, and “Xagħra”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ġgantija and Ramla Bay.
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.
Ramla Bay
Beach
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 1.0 fi.
Ramla Bay is a bay with a beach of reddish-coloured sand in Gozo, in the Maltese Islands. It lies on the north-east coast of the island, between the bays of Marsalforn and San Blas. The closest village is Xagħra.
Ta‘ Kola Windmill
Museum
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Victoria and Għajnsielem.
Victoria
Photo: ZiYouXunLu, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Victoria, also called Rabat is in Gozo. It should not be confused with another town called Rabat on the main island of Malta.
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.
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.
Xaghra
Latitude
36.0503° or 36° 3′ 1″ northLongitude
14.2648° or 14° 15′ 53″ eastPopulation
4,890Elevation
144 metres (472 feet)United Nations Location Code
MT XGAOpen location code
8F8P3727+4WOpenStreetMap ID
node 131739777OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Xaghra” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “الشعراء”
- Arabic: “الشَّعْرَاءُ”
- Armenian: “Շահրա”
- Basque: “Xagħra”
- Belarusian: “Шаара”
- Bengali: “জাঘ্রা”
- Catalan: “Xagħra”
- Cebuano: “Ix-Xagħra”
- Chinese: “沙拉”
- Danish: “Xagħra”
- Dutch: “Xagħra”
- Esperanto: “Xagħra”
- Finnish: “Xagħra”
- French: “Ix-Xagħra”
- French: “Xagħra”
- Galician: “Xagħra”
- German: “Xaghra”
- German: “Xagħra”
- Greek: “Ξάγκχρα”
- Gujarati: “ઝાઘ્રા”
- Hindi: “ज़ेन्गरॉ”
- Hungarian: “Xagħra”
- Indonesian: “Xagħra”
- Italian: “Caccia”
- Italian: “Casal Caccia”
- Italian: “Ix-Xagħra”
- Italian: “Xagħra”
- Japanese: “シャーラ”
- Kannada: “ಕ್ಸಘ್ರಾ”
- Korean: “샤라”
- Latin: “Caccia”
- Latvian: “Šagra”
- Lithuanian: “Šagra”
- Malay: “Xaghra”
- Maltese: “Ix-Xagħra”
- Maltese: “Xagħra”
- Marathi: “क्साघार”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Xaghra”
- Persian: “زاگرا”
- Polish: “Xagħra”
- Portuguese: “Xagħra”
- Russian: “Шаара”
- Sicilian: “Xagħra”
- Sinhala: “එක්සග්රා”
- Spanish: “Xagħra”
- Swedish: “Ix-Xagħra”
- Tamil: “சேக்ஹ்ரா”
- Telugu: “జాగ్రా”
- Thai: “ซาเกร็บ”
- Turkish: “Xaghra”
- Turkish: “Xagħra”
- Ukrainian: “Шаара”
- Ukrainian: “Шара”
- Urdu: “شارا”
- Vietnamese: “Xaghra”
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