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Archaeological Sites

Discover the ancient history of St. Paul's Bay through a collection of sites spanning the Megalithic, Phoenician, and Roman periods. This list features the San Pawl Milqi Roman Villa, the largest discovered in Malta, and the Tal-Qadi Temple with its unique fan-shaped layout. Explore specialized ancient industries through rock-cut Roman apiaries and coastal bathing pools, alongside mysterious prehistoric cart ruts and traditional corbelled stone huts that illustrate centuries of human habitation and agricultural practice in the region.

Archaeological Sites — Harita

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San Pawl Milqi Roman Villa

San Pawl Milqi are the ruins of a Roman period agricultural villa and pagan temple, the largest ever discovered in Malta.

Matthew Axiak / CC BY-SA 4.0

B

Tal-Qadi Temple

Tal-Qadi Temple is a megalithic temple in Salina, limits of Naxxar, Malta.

Silvie Dohnalová / CC-BY-SA

C

Roman Apiaries

Ancient rock-cut structures designed for traditional Maltese beekeeping and honey production.

D

Phoenician Cart Ruts

Parallel tracks carved into the limestone bedrock, indicative of ancient transport or quarrying systems.

E

Phoenician Tombs

Rock-cut burial chambers dating back to the Punic period.

F

Roman Bath

Archaeological remains of a small-scale thermal bathing facility from the Roman era.

G

Bathing pools

Rock-cut pools located along the shoreline, likely used for bathing or industrial purposes in antiquity.

H

Corbelled Hut

A traditional Maltese dry-stone 'girna' used by farmers for shelter and storage.

I

Cave dwelling

Evidence of historic troglodytic habitation within natural limestone formations.