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SPECIAL EVENTS

Full Gun Salute

Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna in collaboration with the Malta Tourism Authority are pleased to inform the public that a rare exchange of maritime salutes is to take place in the Grand Harbour on Friday 14th October 2022 commencing at 11.30hrs between the Saluting Battery in Valletta and the visiting S.P.S. Götheborg sailing vessel. This event will be recreating a past maritime tradition when foreign visiting ships including armed merchantmen were required to discharge their loaded cannon outside the harbour in the form of salutes as a sign of their good intentions to which the fortress acknowledged the compliment with an equal number of blank rounds.

The SPS Götheborg III is a sailing replica of the Swedish East Indiaman Götheborg, launched in 1738 which sank off Gothenburg, Sweden, on 12 September 1745, while approaching the harbour on her return from a third voyage to China. Construction of the replica started in 1995, with the hull launched in 2003, and the rig fully tested for the first time in 2005. In 2008, Götheborg completed its first Baltic Sea Tour. The East Indiaman Götheborg is classified as a passenger ship sailing under the ordinary Swedish flag. It is the world's largest operational wooden sailing ship.
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On this occasion the Saluting Battery will be open for regular visiting and the time-guns will be fired as scheduled. Guided tours will be offered before and after the firings.
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REGULAR EVENTS


Saluting Battery
Valletta

Gun firings:                       12.00 & 16.00hrs
Guided Tours:                    11.00, 12.15, 14.00, 15.00 & 16.15hrs
Audio-guides:                    Throughout the day

Fort  Rinella
Kalkara

Live-displays:    




Guided Tours:
  

Film-shows:   
    

Audio-guides:    
Monday to Saturday
11.00 hrs - Military Signalling; 12.00hrs - Sword Display; 
13.00hrs - Musketry Display 
14.00hrs - Main Re-enactment Display (Foot & Rifle Drill/Cavalry/ Artillery firing)

In between displays

In between displays


Throughout the day




Malta at War Museum
Vittoriosa

Guided Tours:                         11.30 & 14.30hrs
Film-shows:                           Throughout the day
Audio-guides:                         Throughout the day


Lascaris War Rooms
Valletta

Guided Tours:                          11.30 & 14.30hrs
Film-shows:                            Throughout the day
Audio-guides:                          Throughout the day


War H.Q. Tunnels
Valletta
(including the Saluting Battery, the Battle for Malta Combined Operations Center, St.Peter & Paul Counter-guard and the Garrison Church Crypt).

Guided Tour:                            Monday-Sunday
​                                                  at 10.30 hours & 13.00hrs


Book this tour in person at the Saluting Battery or the Lascaris War Rooms or by phone 21800992/21803091 (office hours) or email: bookings@wirtartna.org
Tour starts from the Saluting Battery in Valletta.


PAST SPECIAL EVENTS 2016


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Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna - the Malta Heritage Trust
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T: +356 21800992, 21803091 
Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna - the Malta Heritage Trust is a voluntary non-governmental organization (VO/0117) active in the fields of cultural heritage preservation and management. It was formed in October 1987 and is responsible for a rich array of cultural heritage sites that together span some 7,000 years of continued history.

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