MOBILE PHOTOGRAPHY WALKS – MDINA/RABAT –

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.

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