They have banned cars in one section and approved special lighting that blends with the old facades. City officials have taken steps to preserve the architecture and street patterns from undue 20th-Century influences. The bustling city below is an architectural prize. From it we could look over the river and the old tile roofs onto parts of the original town walls that flank the fortress. The fortress, in which a watchman and his family still live, dominates the town. We got our bearings at the 400-year-old Munot fortress, whose circular keep was based on a design attributed to German Renaissance artist Albrecht Durer. Mercifully, they are sited discreetly and impose little upon the landscape. We will also visit the Ggantijja Temples, known to be the oldest freestanding temples in the world.Schaffhausen, population 34,000, proclaims itself an industrial city, and high-tech manufacturing plants and generating stations do exist. Here we’ll see the Citadel in Victoria, the famous Inland Sea in Dwejra and the rocky cliffs in Xlendi Bay. The following day we’ll cruise over to Mgarr on the island of Gozo. We’ll visit St Johns Co-Cathedral, the Palace of the Grand Masters and Malta’s ancient capital Mdina. Malta’s capital Valletta was founded by the Knights of St John in 1566 to strengthen the order’s position on the island after the siege of Malta by the Turks in 1565. It’s then onto Malta where we’ll spend two days in Valletta and Mgarr. We’ll also see Torre dell’Orologio, a restored 12 th century clock tower and the famous Ancient Greek theatre, founded in the third century BC and rebuilt by the Romans at the end of the first century.

We will walk around the medieval centre and see the Terrace Piazza IX April, with its views overlooking the mountain and the sea. The town, founded by the Greeks, has an ancient theatre that also overlooks Mt Etna. We’ll stop at Catania, the island’s second largest city. On day 12 we arrive in Greece where we dock in Corfu, the most northern island of the Ionian Group. Here we’ll visit Corfu Town with its unique architecture influenced by Venetian, French and British occupation.įrom Corfu we sail to Sicily.

Medieval city buildings per person