Welcome to GOZO island! Let’s visit the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of Ta' Pinu together today. The basilica is in L-Għarb, located on the smaller island of the Maltese archipelago : GOZO.
Gozo ~ MALTA 🇲🇹 lies in the beautiful sunny Mediterranean Sea. We will see the beautiful exterior of the church building. Discover some of the stunning architectural features, we go inside and later outside again to check out the large mosaics on the curved walls.
I visited this island while I was living on Malta itself.
Come along and discover it all together with me.
With this post I’m joining in at the Wednesday Walk #challenge. That is hosted by @tattoodjay every week on Wednesday.
‼️Have a look: Here in the Wednesday Walk Community if you want to join in!… the community is run by @tattoodjay
Look at his last Wednesdaywalk post. It will tell you also the rules of joining in at the Wednesday walk posts 😁 come join us!
Today’s photographic selection will be of 19 PHOTOGRAPHS
Date : 22 August 2020
The Photographs in this post are taken with my iPhone.
I will follow the time stamps on them. So it looks like you are experiencing my adventures on this walk to #discover everything what I saw, like the little details seen through my eyes.
Location of the basilica of Ta' Pinu ~ L-Għarb we find with the pin on the following screenshots of Google Maps :
Zooming out you see where and on which island it is located:
More information about the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Blessed Virgin of Ta' Pinu you find in its own website here, you find also a little history about it… when it was found in books many moons ago: Ta' Pinu National Shrine of Malta in L-Għarb
Check out Wikipedia to find out more about the village Għarb and the island of GOZO
If you are reading up on it do check out : MALTA too!
Let’s start our walk now.
As you can see already, it was a very sunny and warm day when we visit this basilica on a beautiful august day. Perfect to discover new things me thinks.
A little bridge with statues on each side leads you towards the large open square in front of it. It is a large area, especially if you look at the size of the people around, you see it is big.
Wandering slowly over the bridge we see on the left side a beautiful decorated area. The walls are covered with mosaics.
Next to these decorated walls there is a statue of a woman, it is like she walks towards the church.
Shall we check out the basilica first?
Yes, I agree… we will come back later for the mosaics. Don’t miss them, they are beautiful.
We wander towards the entrance and check out the floor under our feet. We look up again and see the entrance.
On the left side there is a long small tower that stands almost loose from the basilica itself. It has a clock in the top.
The large entrance. The steps are guiding you up… it is huge, the building I mean. The intricate details are worth spending some time to observe them in front of the entrance to the basilica - church building.
We enter and have a look inside. Wow, it is beautiful and so bright inside. Nice and cold too. One feels small for sure… when you look up.
After we cooled down a bit in the shade inside, we go outside again to check out some of the details we can find further.
The side of the church building is stunning. The Rose Windows…
Beautiful aren’t they?
The arches and its details on the side of the entrance not easily seen. Such a beautiful architecture.
Now we are wandering outside, come and let’s check out the mosaics. Such a beautiful colourful display. Well depicted.
Standing a bit back we see the right side of the walls and its imagery - the stories.
Both sides. It is a bit too large to really get into one photo. Luckily the sun was in the right spot and didn’t blind us on these bright views.
The stones used… a little close up.
Very vibrant with the gold coloured ones.
Even the back side of the walls are decorated with beautiful stones / mosaics.
We walk to the other side of the open square to have one more look around before we say bye bye.
I definitely recommend a visit to this area when you visit the island of Gozo. The views are stunning too. You see mountains and even the sea.
A quick ferry ride from Malta island takes you to Gozo easily in about 20 to 25 minutes. As foot passengers or with your (rental) car.
…and here I say that’s all for today’s post my friends.
Join me next time for more updates, adventures, #stories and photographs.
Even my own artworks, once in a while, will come by.
Thank you so much for looking, and reading.
Ecency art by @irisworld
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Have a great day all!
Grtz Jackie
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!worldmappin 36.06194 lat 14.21491 long Welcome to the beautiful Basilica of Ta' Pinu ~ L Għarb on the island of GOZO ~ MALTA 🇲🇹 d3scr