History School & College Tours to Malta

Take your students on a journey through time with a study trip to Malta.  Our truly historical program takes you all around the Island visiting all the highlights that depict Malta’s rich history and culture throughout the ages. The tour will take you back in time to the prehistoric temples and you will travel through the medieval times and learn about how the Knights of St John saved the island from the Turk invasion in the 16th century.

History Excursions

• Skorba - The Skorba temples are megalithic remains on the northern edge of Żebbiegħ, in Malta, which have provided detailed and informative insight into the earliest periods of Malta's neolithic culture.
• Tarxien Temples - The Tarxien temple complex consists of four temples connected by a square court. The temples each have separate entrances. The Tarxien temples were built between 3600 and 2500 BC.
• St. Agatha's Catacombs - A natural cave built underneath Malta’s oldest parish church was altered into a crypt, typical of the underground Christian cemeteries of the time. The subterranean catacombs are very extensive and hold numerous galleries and graves of different types.
• St. Paul's Catacombs - St Paul’s Catacombs is a typical complex of interconnected, underground Roman cemeteries that were in use up until the 4th century AD. They are located on the outskirts of the old Roman capital Mdina, since Roman law prohibited burials within the city. St Paul’s Catacombs represent the earliest and largest archaeological evidence of Christianity in Malta and owes their name to the widely held myth that it was related to St Paul’s Grotto
• Megalithic Temples of Malta - Each the result of an individual development, there are seven megalithic temples in Malta and Gozo, the oldest dating from 5,000BC. The oldest freestanding temples in the world are of Ġgantija on the Island of Gozo, also notable for its gigantic Bronze Age structure.
• Mdina Fortifications - The history of Mdina and its suburb Rabat is as old and as chequered as the history of Malta itself.  Mdina, Malta’s medieval capital, possesses origins that can be traced back more than 4000 years.
• Vittoriosa Waterfront -  One of the three historic fortified towns known as the ‘Three Cities’, Vittoriosa is situated on a small peninsula just south of Valletta across the Grand Harbour.
• One of the most important towns in mediaeval Malta, Vittoriosa became the first residence on the Island of the Knights of St John in 1530 and served as the Knight's defence bastion against the Turks in the Great Siege of Malta in 1565.
• Along the Vittoriosa waterfront the buildings that survived and stand to this day are Caraffa Stores Building, the Palace of the Prud’homme of the Arsenal and the residence of the captain of the Galleys.
• Hagar Qim Temples - The temple of Hagar Qim (c. 3600 - 3200 BC) stands on a hilltop overlooking the sea and the islet of Filfla. The temple itself consists of a single temple unit, although it is not clear if it was originally constructed as a four or five-apse structure.
• Ggantijja Temples - The Ggantija Temples are two prehistoric temples on Gozo, the second-largest island in Malta. One of them is the oldest stone structure in the world, predating Stonehenge  and the Great Pyramids by hundreds of years
• Ghar Dalam - is a prehistorical cul de sac located on the outskirts of Birżebbuġa, Malta containing the bone remains of animals that were stranded and subsequently became extinct on Malta at the end of the Ice age. 
• Hypogeum - An underground cavity, is a unique monument and superb example of architecture in the negative. Excavation has yielded a wealth of archaeological material including pottery, human bones, personal ornaments such as beads and amulets, little carved animals and larger figurines.