Valetta, Malta November 8, 2019 Protecting Valetta A harbor tour is the best way to understand the massive undertaking humanity has done to protect the strategic islands of Malta. Malta sits almost dead center in the Mediterranean Sea, making it a strategic point of interest, no matter what era you want to look at in … Read more
November 8, 2019 Caravaggio is a painter with a range that stupefies. These innocent paintings, while filled with sexual inuendos, are what many expected of the Italian painters of his time, and yet, his brilliance really showed in his ability to capture the macabre and make … Read more
Valetta, Malta November 8, 2019 Recognized as one of the most incredible examples of the high baroque style, Saint Johns Co-Cathedral defies explanation. The exterior is so plain as to be mistaken for any other building in the neighborhood, and then you step inside. St John’s was commissioned in 1572 and built by the Knights … Read more
November 7, 2019 The Maltese Islands went through a golden Neolithic period. Later the Phoenicians, the Carthaginians, the Romans, and the Byzantines, all left their traces on the Islands. In 60 A.D. St. Paul was shipwrecked on the island while on his way to Rome and brought Christianity to Malta. The Arabs conquered the islands … Read more