Mobile Photo Tours Malta

Come on a 3 hour Guided Mobile Photography walking Tour of one of the 3 main historical cities in Malta. These tours are offered in Valletta, Mdina and Birgu by licensed guides, Martin Bonnici. You can choose to do 1 of all 3 of the tour locations.

The 3 walled cities chosen have very different personalities. Each of the cities has a rich cultural and historical thread that helped to shape elements of Maltese culture through the ages.

Mobile photography Tours are the lightest version of the photography tuition offered by Martin Bonnici Photography. You will learn very easy to follow, practical photojournalism style story telling skills. These are the same principles developed in 2006 by myself Martin in Melbourne Australia with Photography Made Easy photography workshops and walking tours. My Photography workshops and walking tours were voted 16^th best tourism experience in the top 101 must do’s on the state of Victoria.

Through this Mobile Phone Photography Tour, you will be using your mobile phone camera to take photos on location using some of the most picturesque cultural and historical cities in Malta as your backdrop.

The guided Mobile Phone Photography Tours are a blend of getting you to the best sites within one of the 3 locations here I offer here  in Malta. You will learn some history of each location, lots of photography tips specifically aimed as you being able to take great shots with your mobile phone and a lot of pro tips. These tour will help you get the best of your mobile images for use especially on social media.

How it started

As you must have seen from this site, I have been an international photographer and photojournalist since 1992. I started running my special concept of photography workshops and walking tours back in 2006. They are designed to be good fun, on location and getting you to use your camera.

Offering mobile phone tours have been on my one of my goals for some years. Whilst I was finishing my formal studies in tour guiding in Malta to obtain my guides licence, I was working on my special brand of photography tours for my thesis. With a fully developed set of tours, you can now book one of these great fun tours with me.

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Valletta  Guided Mobile Phone “A” Tour

On your Valletta Mobile Phone Tour, you will experience  the UNESCO Baroque capital city of Malta with your mobile phone. This unique European city foundation  stone was laid 28th March, 1566 by Grand Master Fra’ Jean de la Valette who was the 49th Grand Master of the Knights of St John. Upon its founding, the Grand Master, his Knights, members of the Order, many other dignitaries were present. This also included the Bishop of Malta, the Maltese nobility and some of the local population. This Mediterranean jewel has seen some changes as well as many trials and tribulations throughout its history. You will be guided through its charming baroque streetscapes whilst learning about some of the characters and it’s history.

Mobile Photo Tours of Malta are the lightest version of photography tours that I offer. They are an evolution of my photography workshops that I developed in 2006. These are simple, great fun and aimed at getting you to some of the best locations in a short time whilst. enjoying the city of Valletta. On your Valletta A tour, you will be staying at the top of the Sciberras Peninsula starting at the City Gate. You will see and photograph some of the historical Auberges where some of the Knights of St John used to stay and conduct some of their business, you will also see some great gardens and big open views across the Grand Harbour. As already mentioned, you will also learn about some of the stories that make up the cultural tapestry of Valletta on your tour.

Valletta  Guided Mobile Phone “B” Tour

On your Valletta “B” Mobile Phone Tour, you will take in all of the sites of the Valletta “A” Mobile Phone Tour and a whole lot more.  Your Valletta “B” Mobile Phone Tour will be an extra kilometre in distance and you will be doing an extra hour of walking.

Your Valletta “B” Mobile Phone Tour you will be going up and down hills and stairs however, you will get to see some of the sites not always on the regular tourist itineraries. You will take in some of the most historically picturesque views that the city has to offer from some of the bastions that stretch over parts of the peninsular. As mentioned, on this tour you will be walking for approximately an extra hour, this means you will have a little extra time to see more sites, learn more skills and learn some more of the stories that the city has to offer. Please be advised that you will need to able to walk that extra distance.

Mdina & Rabat Guided Mobile Phone Tour

Your Mdina and Rabat Mobile Photo Tour will start at the City Gate to the ancient capital city of Mdina. Mdina called the Città Notabile (the Noble City) by King Alfonso V of Aragon in 1420 has a very long history. Its origins of settlement starting in the Bronze Age, the city Maleth was founded in about 8th century BC by the Phoenicians. This noble city was then taken into the Roman Republic in 218 BC, it was enlarged and fortified by the Romans who called it Melite. The city was reduced during the Byzantines or the Arabs periods roughly to its current footprint that we can see today.

This tour is a little different because you will be entering into and shooting some amazing historical interiors. On the site of the Wignacourt Museum, you will see a timeline from 60AD to present day. This includes Saint Paul’s Grotto which is traditionally said to be Roman jail in the dry ditch of the old city of Melite. According to tradition, this is where the Romans kept Saint Paul in 60AD. You will visit The Wignacourt Museum, the museum sits over St Pauls Grotto. The Grotto was taken care of and administered by the diocese during the late medieval and early modern periods. The site was later acquired by Spanish nobleman Juan Benegas de Cordoba in 1607 and subsequently handed over to the Order of the Knights of St John in 1617.

The Wignacourt Museum building, formerly the baroque residence of the Chaplains of the Knights of St. John has a long and rich cultural history. The site was  that started in approximately the end of the 1600’s and the start of the 1700’s.

On this tour, you will be taken to the best sites, you will also enjoy meandering though some of the old Mdina and Rabat streets to the Wignacourt Museum. You will learn how to shoot streetscapes, low light, art, architecture and much more in this site with deep historical and cultural past.

Birgu/Vittoriosa

The Birgu Mobile Photo walk you will walk. the streets and Bastions of this old fortified city. You will criss-cross through the old streets passing various sites including the Colacchio with it’s Auberges that still remain from the Knights of Saint John. Birgu was the beating heart of the forces of the Knights of St John during. the Great Siege of Malta in 1565 and areal bombardment during WWII. You will learn street photography and the many stories and history of this old city.

With its historical beginnings in antiquity the city of Birgu lays on the Birgu peninsula peninsular indie the Grand Harbour in the South of Malta. throughout the passage of time it proved to be a strategic position, especially for maritime activities of all types. Birgu started as a rather humble hamlet. The name Birgu is a derivative of “il Borgo” translating to (the town). It was most likely the town that sat just outside of the Castrum Maris (castle-by-the-sea), now known as Fort Saint Angelo that sits at the head of the Birgu peninsular.

The Castrum Maris was in use in about 1220 by Hohenstaufen Emperor Frederick II when he started to appoint his own Castellani for Malta. They.needed a place to live and secure the interests of the crown at that time. Documents from the 1240s mention the garrison Castrum Maris. In the 1530’s after several years of negotiations, Empror Charle V of Spain gave Malta to the Knights of Saint John, the 44th Grand Master Fra’ Philippe de Villiers de L’Isle-Adamwho who lost Rhodes would take possession of Malta on the 26th of October 26th in 1530. title Città Vittoriosa (“Victorious City”),

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