"ZURRIEQ" a Zurrieq Travel Page by micajo

The Village of Zurrieq claims for a large area of the South Eastern part of the Island of Malta, in which village we find a wide collection of ruins and remains going back to the Bronze and Punic times, through the Roman, Knights and British eras. The village in itself is to a large extent adorned with houses and buildings of historical value dating to the XV and XVI century.

The village of Zurrieq is surely not lacking in history, and this can be witnessed by the numerous ruins and remaining structures that indicate the flow of the village through time. These indicate the various settlements of peoples that inhabited the village area, from the Phoenicians to the Carthaginians, Greeks to the Romans. The remains found indicate these peoples as ancestors to the village, yet without excluding the possibility of other peoples, this village is rich in ruins and remains which in future may shed new light on its ancestors. Proof of this may be seen namely in remains such as the Punic Tower, Xarolla Catacombs, Cart Ruts at 'Tal-Bakkari', 'Tal-Hlantun Tower' and many others