Sundays in Valletta and Medina

[realnice46]

We will be in Valletta on a Sunday in May 2023, are we going to find shops and restaurants are closed?

[cruisemom42]

As luck would have it, my first two visits to Malta were both on Sundays. It will be quiet on Sunday morning and many shops will be closed; however, I found that things tended to open up in the afternoon. 

 

The Co-Cathedral will be closed to visitors as it is an active church. 

 

One of the two times I went early to Mdina and it was a ghost town. Very few people around and little was open. Just as I was getting ready to leave and head back to Valletta things began to stir, around noon to 1pm.

 

The other time, I made reservations in advance and visited the famous underground Hypogeum (prehistoric) and the nearby Tarxien temples (also prehistoric) -- these were open on Sunday morning. For the Hypogeum they only allow a few people down each hour to protect the site, pre-reserving tickets is a must.