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Tony Edward
The exquisite megalithic temples of Malta have earned immense glory in all over the world. Those ancient monuments are built in a unique free-standing structure. Most of these megalithic temples have been acknowledged as world heritage sites by the UNESCO. These megalithic temples had taken a long time for its completion and were built in different phases. Ggantija megalithic temple was the first megalithic temple to be recognized as world heritage site by the UNESCO in 1980. Then, five other megalithic temples were placed in the list of world heritage sites by the UNESCO in 1992. They are Taxien Temple, Hagar Qim, Skorba Temple, Mnajdra and Ta Hagrat.
Tourists from across the world come here to visit these megalithic temples and world heritage sites of Malta. As the car rental malta provide cars at very low costs, so the tourists prefer to rent luxury cars for their comfortable visit.
The megalithic temples built on different sites are attached with a forecourt. One side of the forecourt is enclosed with south-east faced facades. Those facades and internal walls of the temples are made from a row of robust stone slabs. Use of apses varies from temple to temple. Use of apses in some of the temples vary from 4 to 6. Those temples in which more than three apses have been used are more complex in structure.
All the decorative works in the interiors of the temple were done in Globigernia limestone. It is a soft stone used to make different decorative stone carving works such as trees, animals and many other things. But the exteriors were built with coralline limestone, which is a very hard stone.
Although all the megalithic temples demonstrate the same architectural work, yet all of these free-standing megalithic temples have a uniqueness. These temples are named after the stone used to built them.
