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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The famous Megalithic Temples of Malta

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.

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