St Paul's Catacombs


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Image: Rabat St Paul's Catacombs, Anne Oldham.
© Tony Oldham, 20-FEB-2002, with kind permission.
Location: Triq Sant' Agata (St Agatha's Street), Rabat.
Open: All year daily 9-17, last admission 16:30.
Closed 24-DEC, 25-DEC, 31-DEC, 01-JAN, Good Friday.
[2009]
Fee: Adults Lm 1, Seniors (65+) free.
Classification:  Catacomb
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Address: St Paul's Catacombs, St Agatha Str, Rabat RBT 07, Malta, Tel: +356-214-54562, Fax: +356-212-41975.
Last update:$Date: 2011/12/13 09:02:25 $

History


Description

This is the largest of Rabat's catacomb complexes, an extraordinary labyrinth of narrow passages lined by rock-cut tombs. Like the catacombs of St Agatha, some of these have an agape table hewn from the solid rock.


Text by Tony Oldham (2002). With kind permission.


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