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Valletta is known as the city built by gentleman, for gentleman.  The order of St. John  - Knight of Malta.
It's a 15 minute walk into town from the port.

The city of Valletta  is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Temperature 
         April average high is 64 and the average low is 55 F ; May 72/61; June 79/66;
                 July 84/72; Aug 84/73; Sept 81/72

 Currency:   Euro                                                 Universal Currency Converter
                      1 Euro = 1.10 US Dollar                   1 Dollar =  0.91 Euro (10/15)
Places of Interest in Malta
Valletta
     
Grand Master's Palace
         house of government; basement floor houses an armoury
    
St. John's Co-Cathedral
         first complete example of high Baroque; Caravaggio painting depicting the beheading of St John,  paving of    
         more than 300 marble tomb slabs (the burial place of several former European princes), and vaulted central
         nave with frescoes by Mattia Preti

    
Manoel Theatre

     Great Seige of Malta - Museum tells the story of the seige of 1565 in 23 scenes

    
Upper Barrakka Gardens - public garden with view of the harbor

     
National Museum of Archaeology
          Hrs: 9:00- 17:00

Mdina - "Silent City"; previously was the capitall of Malta
       
Fontanella Garden - cakes and tea
      
tourist info
Hal Saflieni Hypogeum (Paola, Malta) - UNESCO World Heritage Site
         Huge underground cavity.  The Hypogeum consists of halls, chambers and passages hewn out of the living  
         rock and covering some 500 square metres dating from 3600-2400 BC 


Megalithic Temples of Malta - UNESCO World Heritage Site            
      
Each the result of an individual development, 7  temples in Malta and Gozo, the oldest  from 5,000BC. 
     The oldest freestanding temples in the world are on the Island of Gozo. 
     Malta has  the temples Ħagar Qim, Mnajdra, Tarxien, Ta’ Ħaġrat and Skorba



Bus 11 from Vallerta running every 10-20 minutes goes to both excursion locations
The Tarxien temples are a 10 minute walk from Hal Saflieni Hypogeum


http://www.maltabybus.com/
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