Mtarfa

Mtarfa
(L-Imtarfa)

coat of arms	map
Basic data
State :	Malta
Gzejjer :	Malta Majjistral (Northwest Malta)
Distretti :	Western film
Area :	0.724,656 km²
Residents :	2615 (December 31, 2018)
Population density :	3609 inhabitants / km²
ISO 3166-2 :	MT-35
Postal code :	MTF
Website :	lc.gov.mt/Page.aspx?catid=21&pid=184&lid=1
politics
Mayor :	Anthony Mifsud ( PN )

Coordinates: 35 ° 53 '  N , 14 ° 24'  E

Mtarfa (or L-Imtarfa ) is a small town near the cities of Rabat and Mdina in the center of Malta .

Mtarfa is now a modern settlement. But there are Roman writings that refer to a temple of Proserpine .

history

In 1890 barracks were built for the British Army . During the First World War , the Royal Navy Hospital Mtarfa , a naval hospital, was built . Today it is a secondary school named after Sir Temi Żammit. The British built a chapel dedicated to Saint Oswald during the colonial days of Malta . Since 1900, Marfa was the terminus of the 1931 shutdown Valletta – Mdina railway .

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  Mtarfa clock tower

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  Royal Navy Hospital

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  St. Oswald Chapel

sons and daughters of the town

• Mark Loram (* 1971), British track athlete
• David Millar (* 1977), British professional cyclist

Web links

Commons : Mtarfa  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Mtarfa City Council (Maltese)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ StatDB of the National Statistics Office Malta , accessed on August 1, 2020