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Unveiling ancient wonders! Explore the intriguing Salini Catacombs on exclusive guided tours
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Lyndsey Grima

History buffs rejoice! Heritage Malta is back with another guided tour, this time, offering the possibility to step into the intriguing world of ancient burial sites and archaeological wonders of the Salini Catacombs, which are normally kept closed to the public.

This open day will take place on Saturday 5th April, and tours will take place every half an hour from 10 AM till 12 PM. These tours will be alternating in Maltese and English.

These unique catacombs are made up of 15 small hypogea, mostly cut in a quarry, the size of a burial site. This suggests that a fairly large community used to live in this area. Out of these 15, only five are accessible to the public nowadays and four of them are dug into a squarish section of the quarry.

These hypogea are small but mighty since they provide us with a significant amount of data about how the community used to live at the time. In fact, the heavily decorated tombs in the main hypogeum suggest that the people were of Christian origin. They are also a lasting legacy of the highly skilled craftsmen that created them from scratch.

Tickets can be purchased at any of the Heritage Malta museums and sites or online.

Are you ready to step into history?

15th March 2025


Lyndsey Grima
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Lyndsey Grima
Lyndsey has always been passionate about all things content. She keeps her storytelling skills sharp by exercising physically as she’s a fitness buff and also mentally as she enjoys reading and travelling.

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