Malta Part 2 - more of Mdina, an ancient walled city

After visiting the Roman Villa, we then walked into the old walled city of Mdina, which in many ways was like the walled cities I had seen in Italy - narrow winding streets, churches - but with larger blocks of stone with much lighter colours, simpler lines, smoother pathways and less ornate facades. It seemed quite peaceful, despite the tourists and the horses and carriages taking those who preferred to ride around the streets. The clop-clop of the horses and squeals of the wheels of the carriages, some driven too fast, did at least warn you they were coming around the blind bends so you could jump our of the way. 

There were just a small number of shops, a couple selling Phoenician glassware and jewellery. We perhaps only saw one cafe and no sign of special Greek food being promoted, as I recall, yet people live within these walls and drive their little cars in here. However, we only saw some streets. 

I am not supplying a caption to the photos this time, since they speak for themselves. However, the last one shows the view from one of the walls looking out to the twin city, which I will show you in the next post. You can see the country was very dry and rather barren compared with Italy with its lush greens.