Month: October 2018

The foundation meeting of the Malta Map Society was held on the 14th of November 2009 in the Pardo Hall at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Merchants Street, Valletta. The meeting started at 10.35 a.m. with an introductory speech by Albert Ganado who thanked the audience present for accepting his invitation to lay the […]

The fourth Wirt iż-Żejtun Symposium “The Maltese Village” was held on Saturday 20th October at the Gran Salon, Museum of Archaeology, Valletta. The title of the presentation was ‘The mapping of the Contrada di Sta Catherina’.  Abstract Maltese historical cartography offers not only maps which show a geographical reality transformed by mapmakers to a reduced […]