PORTOMASO & DRAGONARA POINT

The new district of Portomaso is easily recognizable, thanks to its high tower that dominates the city. It is the concrete part of the city. The project proposed by the architects was so delirious that its execution was postponed for a long time, as this development project from Portomaso to Saint Julian has been the subject of multiple disputes since its inception in the mid-1990s. This huge and incredible complex, emerging from a previously unexploited stretch of rocky beach, has seen the construction of this thirty-storey tower, which you will see very clearly when you land in Malta, itself surrounded by a shopping centre, three giant marinas around which luxury apartment buildings are set up, the new Hilton Hotel with its countless swimming pools, a congress centre and numerous shopping malls. The purpose of these marinas was simple: it gave you the possibility to disembark there by boat and go directly to your apartment or hotel room. You will find the only restaurants worthy of a star on the spot. The church of Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Conseil, once high and modern, is now barely visible near the big tower. But in the end it fits in well with the whole. Continuing along Triq il-Knisjia (Church Street), where the church is located, you will come to the Westin Dragonara, a superb hotel with a casino and many leisure facilities.