Qawra
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Qawra (, ) is a zone within St. Paul's Bay in the Northern Region, Malta. Located close to Buġibba and Salina, it is a popular tourist resort, containing many hotels and restaurants.
Key facts
- Settlement.name
- Qawra
- Settlement.native_name
- Il-Qawra
- Settlement.native_name_lang
- mt
- Settlement.settlement_type
- Town
- Settlement.image_skyline
- Sudika Bugibba.jpg
- Settlement.image_caption
- View of Qawra from Salina Bay
- Settlement.pushpin_map
- Malta
- Settlement.subdivision_type
- Country
- Settlement.subdivision_type1
- Region
- Settlement.subdivision_name1
- Northern Region
- Settlement.subdivision_type2
- District
- Settlement.subdivision_name2
- Northern District
- Settlement.subdivision_type3
- Local council
- Settlement.subdivision_name3
- St. Paul's Bay
- Settlement.unit_pref
- Metric
- Settlement.population_density_km2
- auto
- Settlement.population_demonym
- Qawri (m), Qawrija (f), Qawrin (pl)
- Settlement.timezone1
- CET
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- town
- Country
- Malta
- Located in
- St. Paul's Bay
- Image
- Sudika Bugibba.jpg
- Dialing code
- 356
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- Commons category
- Qawra
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Parish
- Sightseeing
- References
Qawra (, ) is a zone within St. Paul's Bay in the Northern Region, Malta. Located close to Buġibba and Salina, it is a popular tourist resort, containing many hotels and restaurants.
Around 1638, the Order of St. John built Qawra Tower at Qawra Point, as part of a series of fortifications defending Malta's coastline. A battery was built around it in 1715, while an entrenchment wall was added in the 1760s. Today, the tower and battery are a restaurant, and parts of the entrenchment can still be seen.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Qawra” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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