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Malta & Gozo Marco Polo Pocket Guide

The Malta & Gozo Marco Polo Pocket Guide the Travel Guide with Insider Tips!

Explore Malta and Gozo with this handy, pocket-sized, authoritative guide – discover boutique hotels, authentic restaurants, the islands’ trendiest places, and get tips on shopping and what to do on a limited budget.  There are plenty of ideas for travel with kids, and a summary of all the festivals and events that take place.

Let Marco Polo show you all these wonderful islands have to offer.  Malta and Gozo are a relatively small and intimate destination so a week is all you need to experience all of the extraordinary variety: Megalithic temples, medieval cities, baroque churches and peaceful villages.  You can dive, windsurf, swim and play golf, or just simply sun yourself on the rocks.

See some of the world’s oldest stone structures, some amazing dive sites, delightful bays and fishing ports such as Marsaxlokk.

Inside:

• Insider Tips – we show you the hidden gems and little known secrets that offer a real insight into these islands.  Enjoy romantic boat tours, regional culinary delights and breath-taking views.
• Best of – find the best things to do for free, the best `only in’ Malta and Gozo experiences, the best things to do if it rains and the best places to relax and spoil yourself.
• Sightseeing – all of the top sights are organised by area so you can easily plan your trip.
• Discovery Tours – 5 specially tailored tours that will get you to the heart of Malta and Gozo on foot or by car. Explore colourful fishing harbours, prehistoric temples, sandy beaches and unusual restaurants.
• Full-colour photos throughout the guide bringing the islands to life offering you a real taste of what you can see and enjoy on your trip.
• Separate, fold-out map.
• Touring App – you can download any of the Discovery Tours to your smartphone, complete with the detailed route description and map exactly as featured in the guide, free of charge.  The maps can be used offline too, so no roaming charges.

Malta is an archipelago in the central Mediterranean between Sicily and the North African coast.  It’s a nation known for historic sites related to a succession of rulers including the Romans, Moors, Knights of Saint John, French and British. It has numerous fortresses, megalithic temples and the Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, a subterranean complex of halls and burial chambers dating to circa 4000 B.C.

Gozo is an island in the Mediterranean Sea, one of 21 that make up the Maltese archipelago. Inhabited for thousands of years, it shows evidence of historic immigration and rule by the Phoenicians, Romans, Arabs, Sicilians, French and British, among others. It’s known for its Neolithic Ġgantija Temple ruins, rural hiking paths, beaches and scuba-diving sites.