Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum

Paola · Malta

Ħal Saflieni Hypogeum, Malta
Photo: Unknown author, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
May–September
Budget
$$
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The Hypogeum is an enormous subterranean structure excavated c. 2500 B.C., using cyclopean rigging to lift huge blocks of coralline limestone. Perhaps originally a sanctuary, it became a necropolis in prehistoric times.

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