The Silent City of Mdina is less famous than Valletta, but certainly equally worth visiting, and adjacent Rabat contains a few notable attractions too. See how many of these you have been to:
10. The Mdina Experience
A video presentation taking you through a history of the city
9. Knights of Malta
Waxwork exhibitions telling the tale of the knights in Malta
8. Palazzo de Piro
This 17th century Palazzo is now a centre for arts and theatre in Mdina
Having visited this museum, it is something of a surprise that enough people remained sufficiently alive and untortured to maintain the population on the island. In the Mdina dungeons you are treated to various waxwork dummies in poses of extreme duress and agony, re-enacting scenes of some of the pretty hideous tortures that were metered out to people in days gone by, from the Romans up until Napoleon arrived and started trying to calm everybody down and introduce less blood-thirsty forms of judicial retribution.
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Almost six months after arriving in Malta, myself and Dany finally got our respective asses in gear and went to visit what I remember some guidebook or other describing as the 'jewel in the crown' of Malta. Or something like that. Anyway it is very well worth a visit and shame on me for not doing so earlier. You get to Mdina from St Julian's on the 202 or 203 bus which takes what feels like a ridiculously convoluted route, but that's a complaint for another day. Mdina is the old walled city which is now effectively part of the town of Rabat, and you can while away an hour or so wandering through it's tiny streets and checking out cathedrals and museums and suchlike.
