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According to a very old tradition, the highly venerated sanctuary of the Nativity of Our Lady of Mellieha was blessed by St. Paul's the Apostle. The same tradition would have it that the icon of our Lady painted on the bare rock is the work of St. Luke the Evangelist.

This church was built in the 17th century, recently restored and is now open as a museum. It is possible that this is where the Apostle St. Paul and his fellow-survivors of the shipwreck in the year 60 A.D. spent their fist days on the island.

The parish church of Mosta dedicated to Our Lady, was designed by the Maltese architect Giorgio Grognet de Vasse, the first stone was laid in 1833. The church's dome is the fourth largest in the world, exceeded in size only by St. Peter's in Rome, St. Sophia in Istanbul and the parish church of Xewkija, in Gozo.

At Birkirkara is dedicated to the Nativity of Our Lady. Many Maltese emigrants in different parts of the world still keep at heart the devotion to the "Madonna tal-Herba"

The front gardens of the residential palace of the President of Malta. These gardens were built under the rule of the French Grand Master Antoine De Paule, contains quite a large number of rare trees.

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