Threads
One story, across the walks
The tours are organised by town. History is not. These threads pull one story out of the stops — a siege, a war, a painter, the Order itself — and lay it across every walk it touches, so you can follow it from one town to the next or filter a single walk down to it. Free to read, like the rest of the written guide.
The Great Siege of 1565
Four months that decided who held the middle of the Mediterranean
15 stops · Valletta · Mdina · Die Drei Städte
Malta at War, 1940–1943
The most bombed place on earth, and how it held
16 stops · Valletta · Mdina · Die Drei Städte
Caravaggio, Preti and the Knights’ Painters
Fifteen months of Caravaggio, forty years of Preti, and the rooms they left
6 stops · Valletta · Mdina · Die Drei Städte
The Knights of St John
Two hundred and sixty-eight years of a military order that ran an island
24 stops · Valletta · Mdina · Die Drei Städte · Victoria und die Zitadelle · Ħaġar Qim und Mnajdra