RECORDING BUILDINGS AND PLACES OF ARCHITECTURAL INTEREST IN THE MALTESE ISLANDS
The built environment of Malta and Gozo has been of special interest to us. However, increasingly rapid building development has meant that character and local distinctiveness are under threat. In response, since 2010 we have been recording buildings and places which we feel are of architectural interest. Centrally located in the Mediterranean, the total area of the Maltese Islands of Malta, Gozo and Comino is 316 sq. kms. with a population of 515,00 (2020). Evidence of human habitation from Neolithic times. Strategic location has drawn numerous visitors and occupiers including Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Romans, Arabs, Normans, Sicilians, Spanish, Knights of St John, French and the British. Malta became an independent Republic in 1974. Project involves walking around Malta and Gozo taking photographs and making brief notes of buildings and places of architectural interest. Each location visited (mainly a town or village) is separately identified and buildings or places recorded within that location are displayed under categories including street names, etc. This inventory is planned primarily as a visual index, possibly developing as an evolving information resource where data can be added when available or amended if appropriate. Locations visited so far include buildings or places of architectural interest that are still to be recorded and a number of locations have yet to be visited.
Jane + Allan Mulcahy
