Author: Joseph Schirò

On Wednesday 30 October 2019 at 6.30 p.m., in the magnificent ballroom of the Casino Maltese in Valletta, the members of the Malta Map Society and the general public assisted to two very illuminating talks delivered by Dr Daniel Gullo who spoke on the ‘Mapping Maltese Slavery in the Early 18th-Century: Records from the Archives […]

Dr Albert Ganado and the MMS Committee had the honour of an audience with His Excellency Dr George Vella to congratulate His Excellency’s appointment as President of the Republic of Malta. The very warm welcome that His Excellency afforded us during the visit was overwhelming. We were all impressed by His Excellency’s keen interest shown […]

  In the last edition of the MMS Journal, Rod Lyon, a Committee member and the PRO of the Malta Map Society, wrote a very interesting article on the village of Castellar in the Alpes-Maritimes, France, situated near the Italian frontier, and only 33 km away from Nice and 20 km away from Monaco. Castellar […]

On 11 December, Dr Daniel Gullo the Director of the Malta Study Center of the Monastic Hill Library in Minnesota and the archivist, Dr Valeria Vanesio, paid a courtesy visit to Dr Albert Ganado at his residence in Valletta. During the meeting Dr Gullo mentioned four manuscript portolan maps of Malta which are held at […]

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 […]