Malta is pretty much at the center of the Mediterranean Sea. The group of islands is about 60 miles south of Sicily and 180 miles North of Africa, and midway between Gibralter and Tel Aviv. Many locals are bi-lingual in both Malti and English. Italian is also common.

Malta was first settled about 5,000 BC, and has been populated by successive groups of Phoenicians, Egyptians, Greeks and Romans, Vandals, Visigoth, Byzantines, Normans, Spanish, the Knights of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (a.k.a., Knights of Malta), French and ... (more)