My last postcard from Malta - a multiview card Prehistoric Temples of Malta and Gozoo

The temples are:

1. Hagar Qim

2. Hagar Qim again - closer look

3. Mnajdra

4. Mnajdra again

5. Tarxien

6. Tarxien

7. Ggantija (in Gozo)

The prehistoric relics on the back cover are (from the top left - clockwise:

1. Ensemble of figurines from the Xaghra Stone Circle

2. Block from the Tarxien Temples

3. Statue of the "Sleeping Lady"

4. Fossil rcovered from Ghar Dalam

5. The Venus of Malta

6. The freestanding statue of a deity

The Maltese islands

An old handcarved stone balcony in Mdina.

The Azzure Window ot Qawra

Gozo island.

Crucifix

This is the monumental crucifix of Polidoro Caldara da Caravaggio.

Memorial tablet from St. John's Cathedral

Memorial tablet of Baron Fra Wolfgang Philip von Guttenberg, Bailiff of Brandenburg. Fra means "brother". The bigger part of the floor of the cathedral is covered with these tablets with various pictures linked to death from manu different kind of stones - the tombstones of the knights of the Maltese Order.

FUMUS, HUMUS, SUMUS ET CINIS EST NOSTRA ULTIMA FINIS - the inscription

И don't know latin but this means something like "smoke, earth,(I haven't an idea wath could mean sumus) and ash is our final end". If somebody knows the words plese, help me with translation :)

St. John's cathedral

Here are some vault paintings from the cathedral by Mattia Preti (1613-1699)- the Knight of Calabria.

St. John's Co-Cathedral in Valetta

This is a view of the choir and internal East facade of St. John's with the twin organs. There are a lot of original works of Caravaggio in the oratory of the cathedral. It's quite impressing to see them :)