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  • James Portelli

    Lovely turnout for the Universal Peace Walk and the Camino Maltes on 9th March 2024. Thank you Fr Paul for opening St James in Zebbug and Mayor David Schembri for opening St Matthew, Maqluba and tal-Hniena, Qrendi. More band clubs and bars are making a stamp available (Papas, Siggiewi, Maqluba and tal-Hniena, Qrendi, Queen Victoria,…

    James Portelli

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  • Georgianne Scerri

    9th March 2024, walked the Camino Maltes in 7hrs. It was a great experience and very informative. Thanks to James for organising it. Onto the next one destination Sicily

    Georgianne Scerri

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  • Pierre Farrugia

    Malta 🇲🇹 Join me for the Camino Maltès, an ancient route pilgrims used many years ago to reach Santiago De Compostela . The Camino Maltès it’s 28km long and starts from Rabat then goes trough Mdina, Zebbug, Siggiewi, Qrendi ,Zurrieq, Gudja, Ghaxaq, Zejtun, Zabbar, Bormla and finally Birgu. On the way one has a passport…

    Pierre Farrugia

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  • Daniel M

    I happened upon the Camino Maltes as I was researching Caminos in general. Malta, I thought – yes! It made good sense to me as a starting point and I organized things accordingly. The path is well marked and I had no difficulty following it. I did get lost once (only once!), but regrouped and…

    Daniel M

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  • Joe Camilleri

    We walked the Camino Maltes over the weekend (over two days). It ended up being 40k, so it was just as well that we split it over two days. We are a group of friends that has walked the Camino Portuges and the Via de la Plata. we are young at heart but no so…

    Joe Camilleri

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