The Taxien Temples of Malta: Travel View

The Taxien temple is one of the finest temples of the world and the most popular tourist destinations in Malta. It has two other additional temples attached to it. This extremely popular tourist destination has been recognized as the world heritage sites by the UNESCO in 1980. 

 The temple is famous for its outstanding architectural and decorative works. It is believed that the temple was built in 3100 BC. The most attractive is the stone works of the temples. Beautiful portraits of different animals, trees and other things were made by carving the stones. A lot of decorative stone works were discovered from ruins of the temple, but later those beautiful stone-works were embellished in the Archeological Mulseum. 

 Those temples showcase a unique architecture because of its apses. Generally these type temples use two pair of apses. But three-pair of apses were used in the Taxien temple which makes it different from others. It is believed that people were coming to this temple to perform their rituals in different occasions and possibly animal sacrifice was also performed here. 

The accidental discovery of the famous Hypogeum paved the way to discover The Taxien temple. After discovery of Hypogeum in 1913, a landowner had requested the Chief of Archaeologist to excavate his land as his farmhands used to strike with large stones when they cultivated his field. Soon the excavation commenced and the big Taxien temple was discovered.

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Visitors from across the world visit this extremely popular tourist destination and spend plenty of time in exploring its graceful architectural work which fascinates them. Tourists take advantage of the

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Blue Grotto : The Mind-Boggling Sight In Malta

Blue Grotto is one of the stunning sights located in southern Malta near Weid-iz-zurrieque. Once a British soldier visited this enchanting sight wherein he saw a number of sea caverns . This splendid spot stole his heart and he could notice that the place had a lot of similarity with Grotto Azzure of Capri. Due to its resemblance, he named the striking sight as Blue Grotto whose meaning in English is same with the meaning of blue azzure.

The most mesmerizing is the arch and six caverns in the sea. A 30 m high arch with six caverns creates a breathtaking sight when sunlight falls on it. The superb view of the reflection of the arch and caverns in the deep blue sea water hypnotizes the tourists.

This is one of the natural wonders of the world which was created in a long-drawn-out natural process. Picturesque of the Blue Grotto attracted several Hollywood filmmakers who have picturized their movies at this beautiful location. Many scene of Brad Pit starred ' Troy' and the most popular travel programme RAI TV2 were picturized at the blue Grotto.

Blue Grotto is the sea cavern whose superb view attracts more than 1,00,000 tourists round the year. Tourists can arrive at the place easily by renting a car in Malta, but most exciting is the boating on the blue sea water. Visitors can enjoy the rare mesmerizing view of the caverns in morning before 1.00pm. As the sun is not so strong in the morning, visitors can see the conspicuous reflection of the arch and caverns in the deep blue water.

Visitors can get access to many high-class restaurants and hotels near blue Grotto. It is the perfect place for driving, snorkeling and mountain climbing. So, a great number of tourists come here to visit this captivating site on renting a car in Malta and collect rich experience.

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