A blistering hot day at the beach, an ice cold beer in one hand, and a pastizz in the other. The only thing even more Maltese than that image is a festa, with fireworks lighting up a small village’s skyline. And even though feasts in Malta are usually part and parcel of summer, we still have a lot happening before 2019’s hot season arrives.

Here are 12 village feasts happening in Malta in the five months before June 2019.

26th January: The Holy Family, Iklin

27th January: Conversion of St. Paul, Mdina

10th February: St. Paul’s Shipwreck, Valletta (Public Holiday)

10th March: St. Gregory the Great, Ker?em, Gozo

19th March: St. Joseph, Rabat (Public Holiday)

12th April: Our Lady of Sorrows

14th April: Palm Sunday

19th April: Good Friday (Public Holiday)

21st April: Easter Sunday (Public Holiday)

1st May: St. Joseph the Worker, Birkirkara (Public Holiday)

5th May: St. Publius, Floriana

26th May: St. Paul’s Shipwreck, Munxar (Gozo)

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David Grech Urpani

Lovin Malta's Head of Content, Dave has been in journalism for the better half of the last decade. Prefers Instagram, but has been known to doomscroll on TikTok. Loves chicken, women's clothes and Kanye West (most of the time).