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Rabat (Malta) attractions

  • St. Pauls' church with St. Paul's grotto, where the saint apparently lived after being shipwrecked on his way to being put on trial in Rome. Pope John Paul II visited this place of pilgrimage in 1990. One can take the underground passage from here to the Wignacourt Museum.
  • The Roman Museum which houses the remains of a Roman villa. It lies in between Rabat and Mdina. This rebuilt Roman villa features mosaics and sculpture from the original house excavated on the site, along with artifacts and displays relating the the Roman, Byzantine and Arab periods, from the 3rd century B.C. through the 10th century A.D.
  • The catacombs of St. Paul and St. Agatha, these are early Christian underground cemeteries, particularly the latter is very interesting to visit. Earlier descriptions refer to a "grumpy tourguide", but by June 2011 there is a friendly one who makes a special effort with children!
  • The Wignacourt museum , this was formerly Grand Master Wignacourt's palace, and is now a dusty but charming old-style museum. It now houses a mediocre local art collection on the ground floor and a slightly random collection of historic furniture and paintings upstairs. Do see the painting of Mary proferring her bared breast to her child with a strangely lascivicious look on her face. Also do visit the cellars of the museum which connect to another set of ancient catacombs, these have not been 'streamlined' for tourism like the other catacombs which make them particularly interesting.

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