Doors of Malta

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Splendidly red in Mdina

While I sort through the hundreds of photos from our recent trip to Malta I’m sharing a few posts with snapshots of generic themes that I like to look out for. Doors are a favourite with many people and Malta has some wonderful examples: from the beautifully maintained, as in the header photo, to the completely dilapidated. Many also have marvellous door knockers and / or religious icons alongside and I’ve included some of them too.

Here follows a set of thematic galleries. Locations are in the captions which can be accessed by clicking on any image.

Red doors
Green doors
A solitary yellow door
Blue doors
Dark and light doors
Psychedelic doors
Ghost signs? Or are there really businesses behind these doors?
Welcoming doors. Some of the restaurants we ate in.

That turned out to be a bigger collection than I expected! One final (shorter) theme to come then I will be ready to write about our walks.

Malta

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  4. Hi Anabel – somewhere I’ve never got to … my mother visited and was entranced. That yellow door is ‘bright’!! Love the selection you’ve given us … I hope you include some dishes from the restaurants you visited in your next selection – perhaps another one? Cheers Hilary

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  5. Beautiful photos! Amazing and captivating colours and details! Very nice doors! Thank you so much for sharing. Warm greetings to you from a retired lady living in Montreal, Canada.

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  9. That open blue door with the light beckoning– I would have been hard pressed not to explore! You got some fabulous ones but I also wonder about the busyness of the business ones! Bernie

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  12. Green seems to be a popular door color in Malta! I’m a fan of the stained and/or peeled doors and the ghost ones. I don’t think I should start collecting door photographs, though, as I’m already taking way too many photos everywhere!!

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  13. Brilliant photos of all those amazing doors and knockers! Such variety and colour to enjoy. I wonder who lives behind them though…you could write a book!!

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  15. Oh my goodness, I want to go to Malta next weekend just based on these glorious doors! The photos are spectacular and you could truly make an art show out of them. Doors speak to so much promise, don’t they? Gorgeous post.

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  16. I remember photographing that first elegant building in Mdina, and I suspect a few of these other doors too 🙂 I’m intrigued by the ‘Economical Grocery’ and also by ‘Boom Defence’!

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    • Apparently the Boom Defence was a metal anti-submarine net which could be lowered to protect the harbour when necessary. I think the green door hides what was the control room and is now a small museum. However, I only found that out when I looked it up later, there was certainly no sign of activity the day we passed.

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  18. A fabulous collection of doors Anabel (you’re tempting me to do something similar myself when I’m next in Manchester). The psychedelic ones look great and I do like the yellow one – yellow is such a sunny, happy colour and the seahorse knocker looks cute. Favourites are the red ones though.

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  21. I like them all but the level of close up detail in the psychedelic doors is exceptional. Must have taken ages to create them… and very expensive. Bob. BSS.

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