Accessible Companion: National Museum & Silent City

OVERVIEW

This excursion is for guests that use a cane/walker, have limited mobility issues or for companions of those guest that have booked mobility equipment tour.

Those guests that are fully dependent on their mobility device please book: MLA_A2 ACCESSIBLE Mobility Equipment: National Museum & Silent City.

Tour includes step-free routes, shorter distances and no stairs. Accessible restrooms with wide doors for wheelchairs are present along the tour route. Vehicles are adapted with an access ramp (or lift where available) to accommodate a limited number of wheelchairs and/or mobility scooters. Guides are not allowed to push wheelchairs; therefore, guests needing special assistance must be accompanied by an able-bodied.

Head inland to Malta’s former capital of Mdina and browse an archaeological museum in Valletta, the capital since 1570. As you will discover, Mdina is now sparsely populated, which spurred its nickname “The Silent City.” The lack of people make it even easier to explore this ancient walled city and its abundant medieval and baroque architecture. Back in Valletta, you will visit St. John’s Co-Cathedral. Although the outside of St. John’s Co-Cathedral is rather severe, the interior is unexpectedly sumptuous. You can’t help but be awed by the intricately carved limestone walls, painted vaulted ceiling and altars that depict watershed events in the life of St. John. You will be further enlightened while browsing the National Museum of Archaeology, whose artifacts date to the Neolithic period. You may see tools used by prehistoric people, Phoenician glass and gold, and a large terracotta sarcophagus. Even the building, the Auberge de Provençe, is a work of art.

HIGHLIGHTS

• View the highlights in Mdina, the nearly abandoned former capital known as “The Silent City.”
• Marvel at the sumptuous interior of St. John’s Co-Cathedral in the present capital of Valletta.
• Gain insight into Malta’s past by browsing the esteemed the National Museum of Archaeology.

HELPFUL HINTS

• Dress in weather-appropriate clothing.