Festa ta' Żurrieq (Santa Katarina)
Żurrieq's second annual festa, held in early September, gives this proudly festive southern village a rare double celebration season, with its passionate community and elaborate decorations drawing visitors who come specifically for the village's reputation for fervour.
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"Mqabba is Malta's undisputed fireworks capital, and on the eve of Santa Marija its Tower of Light structure fires around 10,000 shots synchronised to music from a 62-metre steel frame, making this small village the most spectacular pyrotechnic destination of the entire Maltese summer."
Festa ta' Santa Marija, Mqabba
"Qrendi's Santa Marija festa, celebrated on the same night as neighbouring Mqabba's Tower of Light, answers with its own pyro-musical display from the village bypass, making the southern Maltese sky above these two rival villages one of the most vivid sights of the feast season."
Festa ta' Santa Marija, Qrendi
"The Santa Marija festa in Mosta unfolds beneath one of the largest unsupported church domes in the world, the Rotunda, whose floodlit bulk anchors the procession and fireworks in a setting unique in the Mediterranean."
Festa ta' Santa Marija, Mosta
"Gudja's quiet village festa for Santa Marija on Malta's national public holiday offers an authentically local alternative to the larger nearby celebrations, with a full programme of band marches and a procession through the village's old stone lanes."
Festa ta' Santa Marija, Gudja
"Attard's Santa Marija festa brings the village adjacent to Malta's Presidential Palace to life on the national public holiday with competing banda clubs, illuminated streets and a solemn procession carrying the statue of the Assumption."
Festa ta' Santa Marija, Attard
"The small farming village of Għaxaq celebrates Santa Marija with a full traditional programme of band marches, decorated streets and fireworks that makes this UNESCO-recognised festa one of seven simultaneous celebrations across Malta on the national public holiday."
Festa ta' Santa Marija, Għaxaq