# VisitKalkara.com


## Posts

- [Kalkara Day](https://visitkalkara.com/kalkara-day/): Kalkara Day is organised by the Kalkara Local Council.
- [The Traditional Regatta](https://visitkalkara.com/the-traditional-regatta/): The Regatta is a Traditional Rowing Event that has been held in Malta since the middle ages. The first professional Rowing Challenge started in 1955.
- [Feast of Saint Joseph](https://visitkalkara.com/feast-of-saint-joseph/): The feast of Saint Joseph in Kalkara is celebrated with much pomp during the 3rd week of July, whole week of activities are celebrated throughout Kalkara including band marches, fireworks displays, great food, liturgical activities, band concerts and the devotional procession with the statue of Saint Joseph.
- [Għaddi – An experiential walk through Kalkara](https://visitkalkara.com/ghaddi-an-experiential-walk-through-kalkara/): Għaddi – An experiential walk through Kalkara is a project that aims to celebrate Kalkara’s sociocultural identity, history and collective memory.
- [Our Saviour Garden](https://visitkalkara.com/our-saviour-garden-2/): Our Saviour Garden takes its name from Our Saviour Gate found nearby.
- [Malta Film Studios](https://visitkalkara.com/malta-film-studios/): Jim Hole, a British special effects specialist, and Paul Avellino, a young Maltese construction manager, formulated a plan in 1963 to build the Malta Film Facilities, near Fort Rinella: a shallow-water tank, 300 feet wide and immune from tides and stormy weather.
- [Saint Rocco Hamlet](https://visitkalkara.com/saint-rocco-hamlet/): The Saint Rocco hamlet takes its name from the chapel of Saint Rocco which was once present near the coast and the Hospitaller coastal entrenchments, nowadays the SmartCity site.
- [Kalkara Creek](https://visitkalkara.com/kalkara-creek-2/): Kalkara Creek was sometimes also called the ‘English Creek’.
- [The Church of Saint Barbara](https://visitkalkara.com/the-church-of-saint-barbara/): Following a dream, Giuseppe Valerio Abela donated a plot of land in Kalkara to the Capuchin Friars to build a Church and Convent.
- [Red House](https://visitkalkara.com/red-house/): The Red House is an old private villa built in the year 1803 in the hamlet of Saint Rocco, on the eastern part of Kalkara.
- [Fort Saint Rocco](https://visitkalkara.com/fort-saint-rocco/): Construction of Fort Saint Rocco started in 1872 or 1873 by the British Empire as part of a fortification improvement programme recommended in a report published by Colonel Jervois in 1866.
- [Rinella and Bighi Cemeteries](https://visitkalkara.com/rinella-cemetery/): Bighi Royal Naval Hospital had its own cemetery within its boundaries.
- [The Jewish Cemetery](https://visitkalkara.com/the-jewish-cemetery/): This cemetery is the oldest Jewish burial ground in Malta.
- [Commonwealth Cemetery](https://visitkalkara.com/commonwealth-cemetery/): In 1915 the naval hospitals of Malta had more than 135,000 patients, both sick and wounded, mainly due to the battles of Gallipoli and Thessaloniki.
- [Bighi Cot-Lift](https://visitkalkara.com/bighi-cot-lift/): The Bighi Cot Lift was built in a Victorian architectural style in 1903 and was used to transfer injured sailors from naval ships to the wards of the Royal Naval Hospital Bighi.
- [Wied Għammieq Cemetery](https://visitkalkara.com/wied-ghammieq-cemetery/): Cholera swept around Malta from 9th June to 9th October 1837, plundering the once Elderly Hospice in Floriana.
- [The old Parish Church](https://visitkalkara.com/the-old-parish-church/): On 23rd August 1884 Fortunato Gulia donated a plot of land for the building of a new Church in Kalkara. With request approval, Can. Rev.
- [The Cross of the Great Siege](https://visitkalkara.com/the-cross-of-the-great-siege/): When the Ottomans invaded the Maltese islands in 1565, they found refuge on the hill of Our Saviour in Kalkara from where they attacked the Knights and Maltese in Vittoriosa.
- [Villa Bighi](https://visitkalkara.com/villa-bighi/): Villa Bighi was designed by Maltese architect Lorenzo Gafà. It was built in 1675 by Fra Giovanni Bichi, the grandson of Pope Alexander VII.
- [The Church of Our Saviour](https://visitkalkara.com/the-church-of-our-saviour/): Prior to 1487 a Church dedicated to Our Saviour was built on the Rinella peninsula.
- [Fort Rinella](https://visitkalkara.com/fort-rinella/): Fort Rinella in Kalkara and Fort Cambridge in Sliema were built by the British in 1886 to guard the naval base and dockyard in Malta.
- [Our Saviour Fort](https://visitkalkara.com/our-saviour-fort/): Albeit construction of the Cottonera Lines started in 1670, it was only in 1724 that part of Our Saviour Bastion, named after the hill bearing the same name, was converted into a fort by French military engineers, upon advice by Charles François de Mondion and René Jacob de Tigné.
- [Fort Ricasoli](https://visitkalkara.com/fort-ricasoli/): Built on the first peninsula of the Grand Harbour, the site was known as Gallows Point since it served for the hanging of rioteer slaves. In 1629 Chev.
- [Villa Portelli](https://visitkalkara.com/villa-portelli/): Early during the 19th century, Sir Agostino Portelli, founder of the Malta Chamber of Commerce, decided to build his villa in Kalkara.
- [The Parish Church](https://visitkalkara.com/the-parish-church/): In 1944 Archbishop Mons.
- [SmartCity Malta](https://visitkalkara.com/smart-city-malta/): SmartCity is a technology park under development in the eastern boundary of Kalkara.
- [Our Saviour Gate](https://visitkalkara.com/our-saviour-gate/): Fears of an Ottoman attack in 1669 led the Order of Saint John to initiate the construction of the Cottonera Lines, named in honor of Grand Master Nicolás Cotoner y de Oleza, back in August 1670.
- [Xewkija Area](https://visitkalkara.com/xewkija-area/): The territory known as Xewkija is a small area of ​​land forming an inlet under one of the bastions that surround the city of Vittoriosa and the starting point of the fortifications known as the Cottonera Lines.
- [Holy Family Square Belvedere](https://visitkalkara.com/belvedere-holy-family-square/): The Pictoresque view that includess Kalkara Creek along with the main entrance of Kalkara and the bastions that surrounds it can be viewed form the Holy Family Square next to Rnella Street.
- [Rinella Bay](https://visitkalkara.com/rinella-bay/): Rinella bay is the only bay located in the harbour area.

## Pages

- [What to do](https://visitkalkara.com/what-to-do/)
- [Għaddi – Mixja esperjenzali madwar il-Kalkara](https://visitkalkara.com/ghaddi-mixja-esperjenzali-madwar-il-kalkara/): Għaddi – Mixja esperjenzali madwar il-Kalkara, huwa proġett bl-għan li jiċċelebra l-identità soċjokulturali, l-istorja u l-memorja kollettiva tal-Kalkara.
- [What's On](https://visitkalkara.com/whats-on/)
- [Shop](https://visitkalkara.com/shop/)
- [Attractions](https://visitkalkara.com/attractions/)
- [Heritage](https://visitkalkara.com/heritage/)
- [Merħba](https://visitkalkara.com/merhba/): Ir-raħal tal-Kalkara jinsab fir-reġjun tax-xlokk ta’ Malta u għandu popolazzjoni ta’ madwar 3,014.
- [Home Page](https://visitkalkara.com/): The village of Kalkara, situated in the South Eastern Region of Malta, has a population of around 3,014.
- [Free Wifi Internet](https://visitkalkara.com/free-wifi-internet/)
- [Restoration of marble works](https://visitkalkara.com/restoration-of-marble-works/): Assoċjazzjoni Wirt il-Kalkara has in recent days launched another important project, that of the conservation of the historical-religious heritage of Kalkara.
- [SmartCity Malta](https://visitkalkara.com/smart-city-malta-mt/): SmartCity huwa park teknoloġiku fi żvilupp li jinsab fil-konfini tal-Lvant tal-Kalkara.
- [Ġnien is-Salvatur](https://visitkalkara.com/gnien-is-salvatur/): Ġnien is-Salvatur ħa ismu minn Bieb is-Salvatur li jinsab fil-viċin.
- [Il-Malta Film Studios](https://visitkalkara.com/il-malta-film-studios/): Jim Hole, speċjalista Ingliż fl-effetti speċjali, u Paul Avellino, maniġer żagħżugħ Malti tal-kostruzzjoni, fl-1963 ħarġu bi pjan biex jibnu l-Malta Film Facilities, ħdejn il-Forti Rinella: tank tal-ilma baxx, wiesa’ 300 pied u mhux affetwat mill-marea u maltemp.
- [L-irħajjel ta’ Santu Rokku](https://visitkalkara.com/l-irhajjel-ta-santu-rokku/): L-irħajjel ta’ Santu Rokku ħa ismu minn kappella ddedikata lill-istess qaddis u li qabel kienet preżenti viċin il-kosta u l-linja sekondarj ta' difiża tal-Kavallieri (trunċiera), fejn illum il-ġurnata nsibu l-inħawi ta' SmartCity.
- [Ix-Xatt tal-Kalkara](https://visitkalkara.com/ix-xatt-tal-kalkara/): Id-daħla msejħa tal-Kalkara għamlet xi żmien tissejjaħ 'il-Port tal-Ingliżi'.
- [Il-Knisja ta’ Santa Barbara](https://visitkalkara.com/il-knisja-ta-santa-barbara/): Ġużeppi Valerju Abela, wara ħolma li kellu, irregala biċċa art li kellu fil-Kalkara lill-Patrijiet Kapuċċini biex fuqha jwaqqfu Knisja u Kunvent.
- [Ir-Red House](https://visitkalkara.com/ir-red-house/): Ir-Red House hija villa privata antika mibnija fis-sena 1803 fl-irħajjel ta' Santu Rokku, fil-lvant tal-Kalkara.
- [Il-Forti Santu Rokku](https://visitkalkara.com/il-forti-santu-rokku/): Il-bini tal-Forti Santu Rokku beda fl-1872 jew 1873 mill-Imperu Ingliż bħala parti minn programm ta’ żvilupp ta’ fortifikazzjonijiet mnebbaħ mir-rapport tal-1866 tal-Kurunell Jervois.
- [Iċ-Ċimiterji tar-Rnella u Bighi](https://visitkalkara.com/ic-cimiterju-tar-rnella/): L-Isptar Navali Rjali ta’ Bighi kellu ċ-ċimiterju tiegħu fil-konfini tiegħu stess.
- [Iċ-Ċimiterju Lhudi](https://visitkalkara.com/ic-cimiterju-lhudi/): Dan iċ-ċimiterju huwa l-eqdem midfen Lhudi f’Malta. Huwa jinsab fil-bidu ta’ Triq ir-Rnella, imdawwar bid-djar u b’kobor ta’ madwar 9 metri bi 12-il metru.
- [Iċ-Ċimiterju tal-Commonwealth](https://visitkalkara.com/ic-cimiterju-tal-commonwealth/): Fl-1915 l-isptarijiet navali f’Malta kellhom fihom iżjed minn 135,000 pazjent, kemm morda u anki midruba, l-aktar minħabba l-battalji ta’ Gallipoli u Salonika.
- [Il-Bighi Cot-Lift](https://visitkalkara.com/il-bighi-cot-lift/): Il-Cot Lift ta' Bighi inbena fi stil arkitettoniku Vittorjan fl-1903 u kien jintuża biex itella' baħrin midruba minn vapuri navali lejn is-swali tal-Isptar Navali Rjali Bighi.
- [Iċ-Ċimiterju ta’ Wied Għammieq](https://visitkalkara.com/ic-cimiterju-ta-wied-ghammieq/): Mid-9 ta’ Ġunju sad-9 ta’ Ottubru 1837 f’Malta tfaċċat il-kolera li bdiet tinxtered kullimkien, fosthom f’dak li kien magħruf bħala l-Ospizju tax-Xjuħ li kien jinsab fil-Furjana.
- [Il-Kalkara: il-Ġawhra tan-Nofsinhar](https://visitkalkara.com/zur-il-kalkara/): Ir-raħal tal-Kalkara jinsab fir-reġjun tax-xlokk ta’ Malta u għandu popolazzjoni ta’ madwar 3,014.
- [Il-Knisja Parrokkjali l-antika](https://visitkalkara.com/il-knisja-parrokkjali-l-antika/): Fit-23 ta’ Awwissu 1884 Fortunato Gulia wera x-xewqa li jirregala biċċa art ħalli fuqha tinbena Knisja ġdida fil-Kalkara.
- [Is-Salib tal-Assejdu l-Kbir](https://visitkalkara.com/is-salib-tal-assejdu-l-kbir/): Meta l-Ottomani ħabtu għall-gżejjer Maltin fl-1565, sabu kenn fuq l-għolja tas-Salvatur fil-Kalkara mnejn kienu jattakkaw lill-Kavallieri u l-Maltin fil-Birgu.
- [Il-Villa Bighi](https://visitkalkara.com/il-villa-bighi/): Villa Bighi saret fuq disinn tal-arkitett Malti Lorenzo Gafà. Hija ġiet mibnija fl-1675 minn Fra Giovanni Bichi, in-neputi ta’ Papa Alessandru VII.
- [Il-Knisja tas-Salvatur](https://visitkalkara.com/il-knisja-tas-salvatur/): Riċerki juru li qabel l-1487 ġiet mibnija Knisja ddedikata lis-Salvatur fuq il-peniżola tar-Rnella.
- [Il-Forti Rinella](https://visitkalkara.com/il-forti-rinella/): Il-Forti Rinella fil-Kalkara flimkien mal-Forti Cambridge f’Tas-Sliema tlestew mill-Ingliżi fl-1886 sabiex iħarsu l-bażi u t-tarzna navali f’Malta.
- [Il-Forti Salvatur](https://visitkalkara.com/il-forti-salvatur/): Għalkemm il-bini tal-Cottonera Lines beda fl-1670, kien biss fl-1724 li parti mill-Bastjun tas-Salvatur, imsemmi għall-għolja bl-istess isem, ġie mibdul f’forti mill-inġiniera militari Franċiżi, fuq suġġeriment tal-inġiniera Charles François de Mondion u René Jacob de Tigné.
- [Il-Forti Ricasoli](https://visitkalkara.com/il-forti-ricasoli/): Din il-fortizza nbniet fuq l-ewwel peniżola tal-Port il-Kbir magħrufha bħala l-Ponta tal-Forka għax fuqha kienu jgħallqu lill-iskjavi li jkunu ppruvaw joħolqu xi rewwixta.
- [Il-Villa Portelli](https://visitkalkara.com/il-villa-portelli/): Fil-bidu tas-seklu 19, Sir Agostino Portelli, fundatur tal-Malta Chamber of Commerce, iddeċieda li jibni l-villa tiegħu fil-Kalkara.
- [Il-Knisja Parrokkjali](https://visitkalkara.com/il-knisja-parrokkjali/): Fl-1944 l-Arċisqof Mons.
- [Bieb is-Salvatur](https://visitkalkara.com/bieb-is-salvatur/): Il-biża’ ta’ attakk Ottoman fl-1669 wassal biex f’Awwissu 1670 l-Ordni ta’ San Ġwann jibda l-bini ta’ sensiela ta’ linji ta’ fortifikazzjonijiet imsejħa Cottonera Lines f’ġieħ il-Gran Mastru Nicolás Cotoner y de Oleza.
- [Il-Belveder ta' Pjazza Sagra Familja](https://visitkalkara.com/pjazza-sagra-familja-belveder/): Il-veduta pittoreska li tinkludi x-Xatt tal-Kalkara flimkien mad-daħla tal-Kalkara u s-swar li jdawruha, tista' taraha minn Pjazza Sagra Familja biswit Triq ir-Rnella.
- [Il-Bajja tar-Rnella](https://visitkalkara.com/il-bajja-tar-rnella/): Il-Bajja tar-Rnella hija l-unika bajja li tinsab fil-Port il-Kbir.
- [Ix-Xewkija](https://visitkalkara.com/ix-xewkija/): Iż-żona magħrufa bħala x-Xewkija hija medda żgħira ta’ art li tifforma ruħha fi xtajta taħt wieħed mill-bastjuni tas-swar li jdawru l-belt tal-Birgu u l-bidu tas-swar magħrufa bħala Cottonera Lines.
- [The Villa and Gardens at Rinella Bay](https://visitkalkara.com/the-villa-and-gardens-at-rinella/): The Bichi family, in the past being owners of several plots on the Salvatore Hill, used to lease parts of these plots to third parties, on which small cottages with gardens were built.
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