Malta Makes It To Forbes’ Top Destinations For Luxury Travellers While Local Projects Feature As Highlights
Forbes Magazine published an article with the world’s “top destinations for luxury travellers”, and besides including Malta, it also mentioned two local projects as “highlights of the coming year”.
The leading site looked into different travel networks and companies, noting their top recommendations with Malta being one of them as per award-winning, UK-based travel company Red Savannah.
“Red Savannah is keen on Malta, which will celebrate its 50th birthday as a republic in 2024, and packs a formidable amount of history and culture into its diminutive 122 square miles,” the article reads.
“Highlights of the coming year include the opening of Casa Bonavita, an 18th-century mansion reimagined as a 17-room boutique hotel in the town of Attard, and the unveiling of the 16,000-square-foot Malta International Contemporary Art Space (MICAS), which will serve as a showcase for local contemporary talent and engage with international institutions to present groundbreaking works from across the world.”
This isn’t the first time that MICAS was praised on an international site as a must visit once it opens. Architectural Digest wrote a similar piece including Malta in its list of 24 travel destinations for 2024.
“This Mediterranean island may be small, but it’s planning to make a splash in the art world come 2024,” the article reads.
“Later, in October, the nation’s first contemporary art museum, Malta International Contemporary Art Space, will open its doors in the city of Floriana at the restored Old Ospizio, a 17th-century fortress with views of capital Valletta and the Marsamxett harbour.”
“Italian studio ipostudio architetti is turning the 90,000-square-foot heritage site into a complex for art of all mediums. For the year ahead of the institute’s opening, a show of sculptures by British artist Conrad Shawcross will be on view by appointment on the grounds.”
MICAS is the government’s infrastructural legacy project for the Culture and the Arts sector and it’s intended to strengthen Malta’s cultural infrastructure by providing a platform for contemporary art and internationalisation.
MICAS will be realised through state-funded restoration of historical fortifications and its galleries will be delivered in 2024. This project is part-financed by the European Union under the European Regional Development Fund – European Structural and Investment Funds 2014-2020.
Will you be visiting MICAS once it opens?
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