{"id":9967,"date":"2022-10-06T18:48:23","date_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=9967"},"modified":"2022-10-06T18:48:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-06T08:48:24","slug":"malta-in-september-2022-mdina","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/?p=9967","title":{"rendered":"Malta in September 2022 &#8211; Mdina"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mdina is the old former capital of Malta, originally founded in the 8thC BC by the Phoenicians given its position on a high plateau making it naturally defensible, it is primarily a fortified Medieval city thought to have been built in the 8thC AD by the Byzantines to defend the threats from the Arabs.<\/p>\n<p>It ceased to the be capital when the Knights of St John were given the island and moved the administrative capital to Birgu.<\/p>\n<p>According to tradition when Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked on Malta, he cured the governor&#8217;s sick father and the city converted to Christianity. Paul was also allegedly bitten by a snake and tradition has it that he cast out all the venomous snakes from Malta.<\/p>\n<p>It has some Baroque features added in the early 18th century.<\/p>\n<p>It is one of the favourite places for tourists as it is less busy than most other tourist destinations in Malta, and its high walls offer shade from the summer sun.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=25670a&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC038130.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=5fe08b&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC038210.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"900\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=de8323&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC038280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=fa80ad&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC038290.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wiki\/lib\/exe\/fetch.php?w=800&amp;tok=d7dbc2&amp;media=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ayton.id.au%2Fgary%2Fphotos%2FEurope%2FMalta2022%2FDSC038310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"901\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mdina is the old former capital of Malta, originally founded in the 8thC BC by the Phoenicians given its position on a high plateau making it naturally defensible, it is primarily a fortified Medieval city thought to have been built in the 8thC AD by the Byzantines to defend the threats from the Arabs. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[181],"tags":[649,652,14,56,70],"class_list":["post-9967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-travel-photography","tag-malta","tag-mdina","tag-olympus","tag-sony","tag-tilt-shift"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9968,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9967\/revisions\/9968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ayton.id.au\/wp02\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}