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Voyages, Sorties & Visites VOYAGE MALTE 4 > Voyages, sorties & visites Compte rendu VOYAGE MALTE du 01 au 08 juin 2017 par Marie-Thérèse FERNANDEZ Ce 1er juin nous voici de nouveau A 18h débriefing de Sandrine et Reda L’archipel a été peuplé vers 5 200 av. regroupés au garage de LG Voyages et pot d’accueil. J.C. par le bras de mer qui sépare pour notre envol vers Malte, petit la Sicile de Malte, c’est le début groupe de 24. C’est Jean-Claude • 2 juin - Patricia, notre guide pour du Néolithique. Ces Siciliens ont Fernandez qui avait concocté ce tout le séjour, nous accueille et nous apporté avec eux animaux, poteries, voyage auquel il devait participer ! partons pour La Valette pour une sacs de semences et silex. D’autres Hélas le destin en a décidé autrement visite pédestre toute la journée. phases suivent, identifiées par les avec fulgurance et c’est avec tristesse poteries découvertes avec des Dans le car Patricia nous présente que nous l’évoquons. Le bureau représentations humaines : déesse- ARCEA a confié le groupe à Jean- l’archipel de Malte : petite île de 27 x mère. Au 4e millénaire une nouvelle Claude Chevalier. 14 km, 246 km² - 440 000 habitants. vague de peuplement voit l’érection L’île de Gozo 67 km² et Comino 3 km². de lieux de culte : les temples À Mérignac c’est sur un vol de Volotea Un urbanisme des plus importants gigantesques à Ggantija (3600-3000 que nous embarquons pour atterrir d’Europe avec un tissu urbain de av. J.C.) représentent l’architecture à Luqa vers 13h45. Nous sommes petits immeubles et maisons. La mégalithique. accueillis par Endi, animateur de Top partie centrale et occidentale offre of Travel, qui nous fait une rapide quelques collines, bosquets, champs Puis de 2000 à 1000, des immigrés - Novembre 2017 présentation dans le car qui nous en terrasses enclos de murets de débarquent de Calabre et entrent en N°59 conduit à l’hôtel Salini Resort. L’hôtel pierres sèches ; lauriers roses et contact avec les Phéniciens. Ceux- 4 * est superbe, toutes les chambres ci installent des comptoirs à Malte & figuiers bordent les routes atténuant spacieuses donnent sur la baie de par leur coloris l’aridité du paysage. pour commercer avec l’Espagne et la Salina, et trois piscines nous attendent Gaule. Puis les Grecs et Carthage : les pour les temps de repos, ce que Gozo est plus fertile, c’est une île de Carthaginois s’installent à l’intérieur e Bulletin de liaison d'information des retraités certaines s’empressent de faire. paysans et de pêcheurs. des terres jusqu’à la 2 guerre punique > Voyages, sorties & visites 5 où Rome s’empare de Malte. Rome Bonaparte y reste 6 jours, le temps > rue de la République, la plus longue développe l’île associée à la Sicile et de signer nombre d’ordres qui et large, Parlement de Malte par fonde la capitale Mdina. C’est à cette réorganisent l’île, puis les Maltais se Renzo Piano, époque que se situe le naufrage de tournent vers l’Angleterre jusqu’à leur > statue des 2 architectes (Laparelli et indépendance le 21 septembre 1964, Saint-Paul : il y reste 3 mois, bien Cassar), Fontaine de l’aqueduc,statue accueilli et évangélise une partie de la puis en République en 1974. Elle est de Valette, population qui se compose de païens membre de l’Uion européenne depuis et de juifs. Puis Byzance intègre Malte 2004. > Notre-Dame des Victoires (1566, La à l’empire d’Orient. En 870 les arabes Valette y est enterré), église Sainte- conquièrent Malte. Pendant la dernière guerre, Malte, Catherine d’Italie (1576) par Cassar, surtout en 1942 est pilonné par les > auberge de Castille édifiée par Cassar Allemands et les Italiens. En deux mois, en 1574, avec ses canons, devenue Malte reçut deux fois plus de bombes bureaux du Premier Ministre. que Londres pendant toute l’année du Blitz ! Nous poursuivons par Merchant Street: Pour une petite île, Malte, au cœur de > statue de Boffa, statue Borg Olivier, la Méditerranée, a un riche passé. > halte aux Jardins Upper Barraca Gardens : ils occupent un promontoire Le maltais est une langue sémitique au-dessus des fortifications avec ses d’origine araméenne, parlée en Italie du canons tournés vers le port, des Sud et Sicile, seule langue sémitique statues comme « Les Gavroches » écrite en latin. ornent le jardin. On a une belle vue Commençons la visite de la capitale sur le Grand-Harbour et les 3 Cités, La Valette : lorsque le Grand Maître en face le Fort militaire Saint-Ange Jean Parisot de la Valette a posé où a été emprisonné Le Caravage, il la première pierre de l’Humulissima surveille l’entrée du Grand-Harbour. n Rue de Mdina Avec les Croisades, les Normands s’installent en Sicile et Malte. À cette époque, les Maltais étaient profondément christianisés et de Civitas, le but était de concevoir une grands ordres religieux furent établis forteresse pour protéger les ports sur les îles : franciscains, carmélites, de chaque côté de la péninsule. Les augustiniens, dominicains, bénédictines premiers bâtiments furent les Auberges et juifs chassés d’Espagne. Puis au des différents groupes ethniques des 16e siècle, l’arrivée des Chevaliers de Chevaliers. Suivent au cours de notre - Novembre 2017 l’Ordre de Saint-Jean de Jérusalem, pérégrination : N°59 chassés de Rhodes, et appuyés par Charles Quint, va changer la vie de > statue de l’Indépendance 21/9/1964, l’île par leur puissance politique et statue du Christ Roi, à l'entrée de économique. Malte est profondément Valetta, catholique, à 80%, d’où le nombre > drapeau maltais : rouge et blanc = impressionnant d’églises. foi et courage et Croix de Georges, n Les Hospices de Beaune 6 > Voyages, sorties & visites Nous redescendons par les rues Attenant à la cathédrale, le musée Sainte-Ursule, Saint-Paul, La Cuisine Saint- Jean renferme un gigantesque de la Victoire, église Saint-Jacques, crucifix dû au Caravage et deux de maison où a séjourné Bonaparte. ses tableaux : la « Décollation de Saint-Jean-Baptiste » et « Le Saint- Nous visitons le Musée d’Archéologie, Jérôme ». celui des Beaux-Arts étant fermé. Il est installé dans l’auberge de Une pause bien méritée nous conduit Provence bâtie en 1571. Il abrite une au restaurant « Osborn ». collection très riche de la période préhistorique : Femme endormie, L’après midi nous flânons pour Vénus de Malte de 10 cm, sans rejoindre le Palais des Grands Maîtres tête (elles étaient interchangeables), où nous visitons l’armurerie. La déesses de la fertilité, autel, linteaux collection abrite plus de 5000 articles e e ciselés de chèvres, cochon… datant du 16 au 18 siècles, incluant les armures d’Alof de Wignacourt et Arrêt à la Co-cathédrale Saint-Jean de La Valette. Dans une cour nous construite de 1573 à 1577 par admirons l’horloge astronomique de Cassar : sa façade austère ne donne Pinto de Fonseca (1745). aucune indication sur son intérieur opulent. Quand on y pénètre, on est Nous déambulons par la Faculté n Intérieur de la co-cathédrale submergé par sa magnificence et des Jésuites, l’église orthodoxe, des sa richesse baroque. Le pavement est formé par un immense damier en marbre polychrome de 347 pierres tombales des chevaliers. Les peintures à l’huile de la voûte en berceau ont été réalisées par Mattia Preti : elles représentent les 18 épisodes de la vie de Jean-Baptiste. Les différentes « langues »ont rivalisé pour décorer la plus belle chapelle et toutes renferment de somptueux trésors (lapis-lazuli, marbre, ors et argents) : Allemagne, Italie, France, Provence, Angleterre et Bavière, Aragon-Catalogne et Navarre, Castille et Portugal, et celle du Saint- Sacrement. n Co-cathédrale Saint-Jean Dominicains, Notre-Dame de Port- Sauve, église de toutes les âmes pour rejoindre l’ancien bastion Saint-Lazare où une projection du documentaire « The Malt Experience » nous permet de mettre de l’ordre dans 7000 ans d’histoire de l’archipel. Retour à l’hôtel par le Fort Saint-Elmo qui occupe un site stratégique depuis 1522. - Novembre 2017 N°59 • 3 juin - Départ pour le sud de l’île & Visite du moulin de Xarolla (1791) à Zurrieq. C’est le dernier moulin qui peut Bulletin de liaison d'information des retraités encore moudre. Un moulin servait à > Voyages, sorties & visites 7 400 habitants : en 1724, il y en avait Nous admirons la côte et les falaises mer claire où l’on peut observer la onze. Le meunier nous commente où l’arche d’Azur s’est effondrée le pierre corallienne ; le travail et nous fait visiter un petit 8 mars dernier. En regagnant Xlendi, > le déjeuner nous attend à Fliegu à musée avec objets et personnages joli village touristique, un arrêt nous Nadon ; d’antan. À côté, une petite chapelle permet d’apprécier les produits > visite du musée archéologique Saint-André, sans ouverture et des alimentaires, les dentelles et textiles. dans l’ancien palais Casa catacombes. Bondi : il renferme des vestiges Nous continuons sur Siggiewi pour archéologiques provenant des la visite du Limestone Heritage. sites de l’île, poteries et têtes C’est une ancienne carrière qui a été sculptées trouvées à Ggantija, transformée en un site polyvalent, bijoux, céramiques, pierre tombale retraçant l’évolution de la pierre Majmuna de 1174 av. J.C. ; calcaire locale, la globigérine, au cours > nous poursuivons sur le site de des deux derniers millions d’années. Ggantija « tour des géants ». Les Un itinéraire jalonne les différentes deux temples forment l’ensemble étapes du travail de la pierre et un mégalithique le plus complet et le petit musée expose des sculptures mieux conservé de l’île, découverts et outils.
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