After seeing the Temple I took a stroll around the town of Xaghra where it is located. The first thing I saw looked terribly out of place. The Ta’ Kola Windmill It was built in 1725 by the Order of the Knights of the Hospital of Sant John of Jerusalem, or their more common name, The Knights Hospitaller. It is the best of the original windmills that dotted the island.
The Xaghar Parish church was, unfortunately not open. And this other building was just cool.
Located in Gaza’s main city that I had hopped a bus to, The Citadel or Cittadella, was pretty impressive and in remarkably good condition. And offered some great views of the city and landscape. The site was probably first used in the Neolithic period although the first proven time was the Bronze age (3200-600 BC) It was a Roman Acropolis, ei: a city or citadel built on high ground and therefore better defended. After being sacked by Genoa in 1274 the acropolis began it’s transformation into a citadel and the locals soon all spent their nights within it’s walls. For those wanting more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cittadella_(Gozo)
There were a couple of museums within the complex such as one on nature. Here are some of the birds that can be seen on Malta.
There was naturally a prison in the Citadel and looked pretty basic, that is, unpleasant.
And since the islands have been visited or conquered for thousands of years, they had a nice display of Roman artifacts
And tucked away in a corner room was this… well thing
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And a large Jesus in the distance.
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