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Marsaxlokk

Marsaxlokk is a small, traditional fishing village in the of . It has a harbour, and is a tourist attraction known for its views, fishing and history.
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  • Type: Village with 3,530 residents
  • Description: village and port at the south of Malta
  • Also known as: “M’Xloxx”, “Marsa Shlok”, and “Marsaxlok”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Għar Dalam and Fort Delimara.

Cave
Photo: Jean-Christophe BENOIST, CC BY 2.5.
is a 144-metre long phreatic tube and cave, located in the outskirts of , Malta. The cave contains the bones of animals that lived on Malta during the Pleistocene and Holocene epochs.

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is a polygonal fort in Marsaxlokk, . It was built between 1876 and 1888 by the British as part of a chain of fortifications intended to protect Marsaxlokk Harbour.

Historic building
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, also known as San Tommaso Tower, is a fortified residence in , . It was built by the Mamo family in 1657 on rising ground above St Thomas Bay on the east shore of Malta.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Southern Harbor of Malta and Żabbar.

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Southern Harbour of extends around the natural harbour between Valetta and , with numerous settlements, most of them dating back centuries, on rocks and cliffs immediately around the harbour bay, as well as further inland.

Photo: Tony Hisgett, CC BY-SA 4.0.
, also known as Città Hompesch, is a city in the Port Region of . It is the seventh largest city in the country, with an estimated population of 15,648 as of January 2021.

Photo: Dirk.heldmaier, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a group of three adjacent cities in with a population of about 11,000 : Cospicua, Vittoriosa and Senglea. They are collectively also known as the Three Cities.

Marsaxlokk

Latitude
35.8418° or 35° 50′ 30″ north
Longitude
14.5448° or 14° 32′ 41″ east
Population
3,530
Elevation
17 metres (56 feet)
United Nations Location Code
MT MAR
Open location code
8F7PRGRV+PW
Open­Street­Map ID
node 265695880
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
2562247
Wiki­data ID
Q781921
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Vietnamese—“Marsaxlokk” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “مرسى شلوق”
  • Armenian: “Մարսաշլոկ”
  • Bashkir: “Марсашлокк”
  • Basque: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Bengali: “মারসাশ্লক”
  • Catalan: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Cebuano: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Chinese: “马尔萨什洛克”
  • Czech: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Danish: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Dutch: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Esperanto: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Finnish: “Marsaxlokk”
  • French: “Marsaxlokk”
  • German: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Greek: “Μαρσαξλόκ”
  • Greek: “Μαρσασλόκ”
  • Greek: “Μάρσασλοκ”
  • Greek: “Μαρσασλόκκ”
  • Greek: “Μάρσασλόκκ”
  • Gujarati: “માર્સાક્સલોક”
  • Hebrew: “מרסשלוק”
  • Hindi: “मार्सक्सलॉक”
  • Hungarian: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Indonesian: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Italian: “Marsa Scirocco”
  • Japanese: “マルサ・シロッコ”
  • Japanese: “マルサシュロック”
  • Japanese: “マルサシロク”
  • Japanese: “マルサックスロック”
  • Kannada: “ಮರಾಕ್ಸ್ಲೋಕ್”
  • Kazakh: “Марсашлокк”
  • Korean: “마르사실로크”
  • Latin: “Herculis fanum”
  • Latin: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Latvian: “Marsašloka”
  • Lithuanian: “Marsašlokas”
  • Lombard: “Marsasloch”
  • Malay: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Maltese: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Marathi: “मार्सक्सलोक”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Persian: “مارساکسلوک”
  • Polish: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Portuguese: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Russian: “Марсашлокк”
  • Sicilian: “Marsa Sciroccu”
  • Sinhala: “මරසක්ස්ලෝක්ස්”
  • Spanish: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Swedish: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Tamil: “மார்சஸ்ப்ளோக்க்”
  • Telugu: “మార్కాక్స్‌లాక్”
  • Thai: “มาร์ซักลอกก์”
  • Turkish: “Marsaxlokk”
  • Ukrainian: “Марсашлокк”
  • Urdu: “مارساشلوک”
  • Vietnamese: “Marsaxlokk”

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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 “Marsaxlokk”. Photo: Felix Koenig, CC BY 3.0.