ROMAN TOWER REMAINS

The remains of Roman towers are part of a vast "warning system", probably built to warn of attacks by Heruli from the Black Sea in the ^3rd century. In the event of an imminent attack, the alarm would be sounded from tower to tower as far as Mdina, the capital of the time. Further towers were built in the ^17th century for the same purpose. Only the aggressor had changed. Zurrieq, like the surrounding villages, served as a lookout and the first defensive post on the southern coast.