Malta: Exploring one of Europe's smallest countries - Mediterranean journey | DW Documentary
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- Jaafar Abdul Karim travels through one of the smallest countries in Europe: Malta. The Romans, the Arabs, the British and the French have all left their mark here. A sunny country with a multicultural heritage.
Jaafar Abdul Karim starts his journey in the capital, Valetta. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the city has been extensively restored and renovated. Architect Konrad Buhagiar played a major role in this. He shows Jaafar Valetta's most beautiful places, where old and new architecture come together.
In Siggiewi, the presenter meets Marilu Vella and the two cook a very special local dish: pastizzi. The dumplings are a favorite snack of the Maltese.
The island nation has been a member of the EU since 2008. And here - in a tax haven - people like to show off what they've got. But Malta also has its dark sides: At the end of 2017, a murder shook Maltese politics and plunged the country into a crisis. Journalist Daphne Galizia uncovered one of Malta's biggest corruption scandals. Shortly after, she was the victim of a car bomb.
Deeply shaken by this story, Jaafar takes the ferry to Gozo. The second largest island in the Maltese archipelago is only 14 kilometers long, but it has two large opera houses. Jaafar Abdul Karim finds out why from the artistic director John Galea.
This Mediterranean island is one of the sad hotspots in the refugee crisis. Tens of thousands of people have drowned in recent years trying to reach Europe. Time and again, ships that have rescued survivors from the Mediterranean dock there. Jaafar Abdul Karim talks to survivors and Maltese photographer Darrin Zammit Lupi, who has captured moments of the refugee drama in pictures.
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Actually, Malta have been a member of the EU since 2004, not 2008. We started using the euro (€) in 2008.
Hi @Sean Schranz, thanks for watching and pointing this out. As you correctly state, Malta became a member of the European Union in 2004 and has been a Euro area member since 2008. We apologize for the mistake and any issues it may have caused.
no worries I absolutely love this channel and I appreciate your response!!
Thank you Sean ! As a true Maltese I’m glad someone noticed the mistake ! U rock homie 🙏
Are you citizens of Malta??
@@shohagmasud7258 I'm not
We've been to Malta and Gozo for two weeks with my wife five years ago. The islands were almost empties of people (in March). This trip is still one of our best memories. We loved everything in this wonderful country : the streets, the monuments, the food (risotto rabbit 😋), the language, the hills, the shore, Valetta and its walls and of course the locals ! Thanks a lot and long life to Malta !
What a lovely comment. Thanks from a local!
Watching this video makes me want to go! What is the best city to stay in?
@@kellymurphy4632 you're always welcome to visit.Malta is a small island so wherever you stay, you don't have to worry for long trips to make. hope you manage to visit cause you will fall in love with our island
@@kellymurphy4632Xlendi
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Being Maltese I am most proud of the humanitarians we have on the island and the diversity because everyone deserves a chance ❤🇲🇹 Viva Malta 🇲🇹
you are a blind believer of left wing politics who is unable to think for yourself and easily swayed by the media
nope.they can do better in their own countries
very nice place i love it.very friendly maltese
@@user-ci7vu7eo9w pathe*** ! Where are you from again?!
Malta is a hotspot for criminals. Money is the true religion in Malta. Malta has always been criminal.
As a Chilean, I consider Malta to be one of my favorite countries to travel as tourists. Their language is also fun though, an Arabic language that has been Latinized.
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Well Done, DW for such documentary. I am Maltese and proud of it. I live in Vienna but my home remains Malta!
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They have a great working "nomad" visa offer too. If you can work remote, you can live in Malta for an annual fee (400 euro I think) without needing to pay income tax there. It's like WFH... in Malta 😅
Valetta was founded by the Order of St John of Jerusalem, not by 'the crusaders.'
It's named after Jean Parisot de la Valette, the Grand Master of the order at the time of the Great Siege of Malta by the Turks in 1565.
The Order of the knights of St. John or Knights Hospitallers as they were also known, where part of the crusades, first as hospitallers who later became warrior knights...so calling the order crusaders is also correct...altough as you rightly pointed out Valletta was built when the crusades were over by around 3 centuries before.
@@graemeduncan472he seems elated when their languages are similar, even though it’s a result of colonialism…
I've been to Malta for 6 days this summer, people were very nice, unfortuenately I had not enough time to see everything, but Valletta is beautiful.
Hope I can come back some day, maybe even learn Maltese and live there hah
Quite nostalgic, seeing this document with places where I stood :D
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My mom has Maltese ancestry as well as italian. I remember her making Pastizzi when we were kids. They are sooo good!!
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high quality video, thanks for sharing
Wow, thank you for the beautiful documentary. 😍🥰😇
I've spent many months in Malta. A home halfway around the world it feels like now. I was even there and saw Hugo the day before he was murdered, RIP. Wild times on that island.
looking forward to visiting it soon
Just watched the documentary. What an incredible journey! The stunning visuals provided a captivating insight into the beauty and charm of Malta. Highly recommend for anyone interested in exploring unique destinations.
My Malta Very Unique and Magical in every aspects
Sliema was such a beautiful place in the 1960's when our Maltese family lived there. We migrated to Sydney in 1967 and have returned as tourists to find Sliema turned into Hong Kong, overdeveloped with ugly high rise ruining the seascape.Malta is turning into an overcrowded hovel.
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hello.@@AlexandraSandra-ho3wz
@@paulmitford5189 hi how are you doing?
The woman making the pastries is so beautiful! My goodness
Indeed. She is very beautiful and she has such a warm smile.
@@jimallen8238some women don’t need fake books and tons of makeup . They are hypnotic
@@stankythecat6735 Agreed. Very true. Women like her are alluring in a way that scantily clothed women caked in makeup could never be.
She’s a progressive tho lol
Love Malta,life,and enjoyment, bean here, two time,miss LA Valeta,Gozo,.back soon again,.Mediterranean paradise,.
I was born in Malta but immigrated to Canada in the early 50’s with my parents. It took me 67 years to return. I shouldn’t have waited so long. It was awesome being back and hope I’m able to return before I’m much older. It’s a wonderful place.
Another wonderful DW documentary shared ❤️ thanks DW channel
I love Malta,been there several times and can't wait to go back again.
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It was an amazing country. I loved Malta 🇲🇹. So beautiful and well designed. The grid is designed to cool down the main city, Valletta. Amen 🙏.
It still is an amazing country. We are still here
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@@victorbravo1859 hello👋
Malta is in my wishlist for a longtime.🤞
Beautiful amazing scenery and wonderful views of you 🇲🇹 🇲🇹 🇲🇹
I've returned from Malta one day ago, and CZcams offers the video now )))
Love Malta 🤍❤️🤍❤️🤍❤️
Hope you enjoy my country
@@elzc06 I did, every second and every part of it! Will visit again. Greetings!
Danke DW
Yes, thousands of people from East Africa, such as Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, Nigeria.
are coming to reach this island
These countries you've mentioned are not east African, you mean west African
@@wpower7435 thank you i mean west Africa
What about people from Tunisia?
@@living_peace you're welcome
Send them back. Does europe really want to go extinct?
When I went to Malta, it was to see the remarkably well-preserved ancient monuments. Why weren't they even mentioned?
Because that is not the agenda of this video. Funny how much pictures of illegal migrants drowning but never a shot of them throwing their documents in the sea before they are picked up by NGO traffickers.
This documentary is not about Malta, but about sympathizing illegal aliens.
Ancient? What are you, american?
Because this documentary is about the present, not the past as much.
And I'm fascinated with those ancient structures, too, but there is plenty on youtube about them already.
DW had an Agenda...to slide in Homosexualism tourism...it's a new commercial hustle to provide Homo- Honeymoon Packages ( lol). Yet, the traditional culture was basically ignored. It was Leftist ( Wokism) BullSh't...Abortion and Homosexual, over and over!
Great place as a kid in the 60's to explore
I visted back in 2018 and I loved it. I will always reccommend visiting.
Thank you.Excellent video ♥️ I’m Maltese living in Melbourne.I enjoyed the movie very much. 👍☺️❤️
Thanks a lot for watching and taking the time to comment!
Thanks from Brazil. 🇧🇷
Amazing Malta
I lived there for three months (language journey)
It became one of my favourite places to be, I met so many cool people there, and the climate is just awesome from a German perspective.
I wanna go back in the summer without any covid 19 restrictions.
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Hoping to visit next year. My Fathers family are from Gozo so will be amazing to finally meet relatives
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Thank you. Interesting.
Beautiful!
Wow looks beautiful gonna plan a trip there in coming years
Looking forward to visiting Malta 🇲🇹 in the near future!
Top video man
This was so good. Tank U!
Thanks for watching!
It has been a while since I watched a video on this channel, and I'm always amazed by the quality and passion you guys put into your job.
Thanks for watching and for your positive feedback:)
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Amazing video
Here in Australia my Italian mother had a friend who came from Malta.
Malta was at the Crossroads of the Carthaginian Empire.
What a beautiful country, indeed!
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Stunning❣️🤯
Tajjeb ukoll, good work of documentary.
Those pastizzi are as authentic as her liberal views,its like cooking a pizza using cardboard as a base.
I have visited Malta on a short holiday with my wife a few years ago. We've enjoyed it so much. It really felt like a safe haven for people of different cultures. But then, shortly after our return home, the unfortunate jurnalist assasination hit us. Saving the refugees from the sea is also a very touching topic. Hope they are safe and integrated in Europe.
Ha "are..integrated". Good luck with that! Immigrants from 3rd world who came 30+ years ago still haven't and you expect this batch to integrate?
FYI I am a 3rd world immigrant in Europe.
@@longdragon3 emigration is a long and difficult process indeed. Implies risks and commitment from both parties. I'm not going to expand on the subject any further. I wish you find what you are looking for and that is serves you well.
I'm interested in how (if) Malta has changed after the assassination. Did the culprits go to jail? Are there new procedures in place to stop corruption?
@@TomNook. yes and no. Tax havens like Malta are subject to money laundering which Maltese government allowed at the time (or still does?). No doubt this brought a level of prosperity in the region but tax evasion at that level is no joke. The investigating journalist was threatened many times by corrupt politicians and sketchy business people. Until they paid 150K for an assassin. The assassin also received 15 years in prison and stated he regrets it but collaborate with the authorities. Also, high government officials were dismissed at the time due to street protests.
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I just finished watching Mumbai of INDIA, following Malta 🇲🇹 Mediterranean style is such a changed for the better. So nice and clean and organized.
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I’m so proud of being Maltese!
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Gorgous 😍💚
The best in Malta their amazing beautiful Island
My husband and I were in Malta for 2 weeks. Very lovely country with delicious food.
Thank you for this documentary, DW. ❤️
As long as you are not investigating corruption. Then you end up blown up or ‘lost’ in the sea
What's their food?
@@norcalpinoy9618 we have loads
In any country in Europe food is good….
no need to brag!
I was thinking about going there one day but now I 100% will never go.
Why will you never go?
I LIVED IN THIS LITTLE ISLAND FOR OVER 2 YEARS, AND I MISS THE BEATIFUL WEATHER TIME TO TIME WHEN IT RAINS A LOT IN THE UK :D
I went to Malta for holiday.It's really a tiny place.I was in Mosta,in the middle of Malta.I didn't go to Gozo that time.And I think that is a wonderful country.The only thing is,it's too small for living.
I looooooooove how they dance 💜
A beautiful destination..those who make is so unique are those who live in Malta influenced by their historical past..
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thank you so nice countiry s
I was there for almost three years …… nice people
Malties people are very generous
Places are pretty good
I still miss malta from my heart
If you love malta don’t forget to donate For Dar Tal Provideza
Wonderful documentary Wow MALTA mix with multi-culture Peoples of Malta so lovely too ,,, Best wishes from Sri Lanka
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All I previously knew about Malta, was its location and its relatively small size.
Now I know a little more about it.
Besten Dank!
it 's location means it is, short form.
@@yanliew4027 You are right it was a typo.
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@@yanliew4027 hello👋
@@SM-df9hm hello👋
Very nice travel show❤
Amazing!!!
I love Malta, I spent a month there in the late 1990s.
I need more details please!! How was it then comparing to what we see now in the video? Thanks :)
@@pt7181 very inexpensive, I found a pension for 8 American dollars a night. And No new buildings Valletta is beautiful
@@pt7181 no tall buildings, I went to all goddess temples
Really wonderful treat to watch DW documentary its unique and professional
very professional
Amazing documentary, DW!! I've been to Malta and Gozo. You captured it well.
Thanks John! What did you like the most in Malta?
@DWDocumentary the immense density of the population, but I still felt I had space. The people were extremely hospitable and pragmatic. On my departing flight on Air Malta, we were stuck on the tarmac for an hour, and a passenger suffered a panic attack and started running up and down the aisle. This was a few years after 9/11, and as an American, I knew the situation would end with the plane deboarding for security and possibly canceling the flight. To my pleasant surprise, the pilot simply dropped off the crazed passenger at the nearest gangway, and we took off!!!
What a beautiful place! I'd love to go there and see it with my eyes one day...
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I was there in 1961. Absolutely beautiful. Great Friendly people.
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@@AlexandraSandra-ho3wz Hi
Proudly of Maltese heritage. Grandfather born and raised in Malta. Emigrated to South Africa. Hoping to visit beautiful Malta one day soon
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@@AlexandraSandra-ho3wz hey there
@@leatheryng hello how are you doing?
@@AlexandraSandra-ho3wz good thanks. Yourself?
@@leatheryng I'm good thanks..
High quality video content ❤
Was there, a week ago. Amazing and beautiful!!!
I lived in Malta for nine and a half years. I left in 2004 and have not had the chance to return since then, unfortunately !
Where are you from?
i ❤ Malta!!!
34 years ago a priest from Malta visited me in Panatnikhom, a refugee camp in Thailand. After he left, he sent me a postcard of Malta. I'd kept it for decades, but somehow lost it a few years ago. And just yesterday I went to look for it, but couldn't locate it. I wanted to pay the priest a visit... but...
Malta has been a member of EU since 2004, not 2008 as mentioned in the video.
Beautiful people, beautiful country, bit it sounds like so many other countries that are losing their identity and character through too many people, foreigners, invading....
Highly interesting & well structured documentary as always DW!
A beautiful country! Thank you for sharing.
Hope we get to visit someday!
really cannot see what is so beautiful with traffic, dust and grey concrete buildings all over the island
You mean the streets filled with trash? Or maybe the desert-like country side with little to no agriculture or vegetative growth of any kind? Must be hard to choose
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@@crismam1531 hello👋
@@JohanJansson hello👋
yeah its run by a mafia, terrible traffic too. Beautiful locals & architecture/heritage
Oh come on guys, Where is the report about the Blue Lagoon or how amazing the dive sites are or what about transportation in Malta , day to day life, this is how you want to do it right? Mini documentary about Malta reported by a reporter who speak Arabic and talking about Gender and Refugee, How embarrassing, what a quality.
-Indonesian living in Malta
Thank you for sharing 🌹🥀🌺🌼🌼 Amazing and Malta is quite intesting to explore,, Lots of Swedish Business Companies are etablished over there.. A young generation for opportunities - A son of my good friend begin this year make it possible to start up company. Great for him and his partners. Best Wishes from STOCKHOLM - SWEDEN 😇
i was there 2 months ago, i fell in love both with the island and the people. LOVE LOVE LOVE
Thanks
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una preciosidad este lugar ❤❤❤
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Once my professor asked us to make paper about a certain country related to tax. Every one should choose a country that different from the others. I chose Malta and my friend found it funny because she never heard about Malta 😭
i guess coz of tax evasion and money laundering?
I've been living here in Malta for over seven years and with its ups and downs it is a very good place to live. Yet the best pastizzi you can find here are in Rabat, at Is-Serkin
Try Roger in Zejtun for pastizzi. Serkin doesn't come close to Roger :) Serkin is nice to hang out at though. te' u pastizz ;)
Jeffs, which can be found across the island, also adds a little more kick with spices... recommended
This is the only nice thing left in your memory from Malta :)
Is the culture and people mostly Italian? I am noticing a lot of people have Italian names.
@@NorceCodine mediterrenean culture. Similar to italy but still unique in its own way. Malta has English, Arabic, French and Latin influences.
10.10.2022.Very good and best.
Bucket list!
Another place I would love to see. Thanks for telling us about it
Come
Wonderful and unique country. Within in 25 minutes you have talked about many issues. By showing the uniqueness you have discussed biggest problems like migration, freedom of expression etc. In the starting you showed a beautiful journalist called Sineb El Masrar. Later on there she is not shown. Even in the titles also her name not appeared. One more thing is if you have talked about how they get food? Do they have agriculture? How the government is elected ? it will be some more interesting. Being a journalist ( from India) at the end of the documentary i got these questions. Overall it is a good documentary. Thanks for the wonderful insights Jaffer Bhai.
12:01 12:10 White 1967 Ford Cortina sedan. In 1973 I bought a light blue station wagon Cortina but sold it several months later. My first car. Oregon, USA.
The old buildings reminded me of Rhode Island. I love the Greek islands too much and I m not likely to have time for Malta
@DW documentary this is very informative. How I wish I could go there someday. The country Malta is so beautiful and has a unique architecture as well.❤
Thank you for watching and your comment, we appreciate it!
@@DWDocumentary thank you
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i love malta
Good!
GOOD VIDEO ABOUT MY BEAUTIFUL & UNIQUE MALTA 🇲🇹 ♥. One has to realise that MALTA, for it's size, is the most historic place on earth ⚔ 🛡. Also, MALTA punches well above it's size in a socio /economic perspective.
Cheers 👍 🇲🇹 ♥ 🇪🇺 ™
it's size = it is size, short form.
@@yanliew4027 "SIZE" = Overall dimensions or magnitude (Oxford English Dictionary). Have a nice day.
Cheers 👍 🇲🇹 ♥ 🇪🇺 ™
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@@yanliew4027 hello👋👋
Great job Jaafar Abdul Karim
A language that is 60 percent Arabic but written with Latin letters. Amazing, I had never known what language was used in Malta.