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Curious to know more about Valletta’s history? Join a local history expert on an insightful tour that will show you a side of the city that can’t be found in any book. This experience will open your eyes to the past and origins of Valletta from a local perspective as you learn about the Layers of History and Culture.

Destination

Valletta, Malta

Category

City Highlight Tours

Duration

3 hours

Transport mode

Walking tour

Available languages

English, Italiano

Included

• Private Guide
• Entrance Ticket to the War Museum
• All Withlocals Tours are Carbon Neutral

Excluded

• Entrance to attractions other than mentioned

What you can expect

This is the plan

Check out the plan below to see what you'll get up to with your local host. Feel free to personalize this offer with the host of your choice.

1. Meeting point

   Meet at At the fountain of Upper Barraka Gardens - Valletta to start your journey

   View on Maps

2. Itinerary

   This is what our experience could look like, but it’s not set in stone! Once you book, you can chat directly with your host to make small tweaks to suit your preferences.

3. Layers of History and Culture

   Your history tour in Valletta will focus on the layers of History and Culture. Learn the impacts, insights and hear stories related to this historic event from your knowledgeable host. Discover the city as you retrace history and go in-depth on the effects this part of history has on Valletta

4. Historical Highlights

   Check out main landmarks related to the theme of your history tour and connect their relevance through fantastic stories and facts from your expert local host

5. Hidden Treasures

   During your tour, you’ll also uncover hidden gems that will show you a different perspective of history as you know it, something you can’t easily find in a history book!

6. Storytelling Journey

   As you discover the historical side of Valletta, you’ll be able to go back in time thanks to the amazing stories and storytelling skills of your local host. Feel free to ask any questions and feel as if you are relieving history in the present time

7. Make it yours

   Want to tweak the itinerary? Book directly & chat afterwards with your host to adjust highlights, skip stops, or make small changes to fit your preferences.

   Book risk-free: Cancel within 24 hours for a full refund.

   Need something special? Personalize your experience for more time, alternative locations or a completely tailored plan.

Flexible cancellation policy

• Feel confident booking

  Cancel within 24 hours for a full refund. Even up to 7 days before your experience, you’ll receive a refund, minus the service fee.

• Change of plans?

  Reschedule your experience to a date and time that works best for you.

• Loved by travelers worldwide

  Simple and flexible – your plans, your way.

Reviews from guests

Leslie

(About local Victoria)

11 July 2024

Victoria is quite honestly the most informative and insightful tour guide we have ever had from Paris to Sidney. Thank you Victoria, we will be back shortly to have a more in depth tour....xo.Extremely insightful!

Paul🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

7 March 2025

Great knowledge and commutation skills easy way about about her thanks for the experience. Excellent guide even in the rain

Fatima

(About local Victoria)

23 February 2025

We were a group of 11 and we can't recommend Victoria highly enough. She was flexible and accommodating to the needs and expectations of our group. Her outgoing personality made it easy for us to connect with her immediately. She is very knowledgeable about Malta's history and is passionate about Malta. The food tour, where we sampled local cuisine in small shops frequented by locals, was great. It was a fabulous tour and so informative that it exceeded our expectations!Excellent food tours - highly recommended

Amr

(About local Victoria)

14 February 2025

We were lucky to have Vicky (Victoria) as our guide on a 3hour long walking tour of Valletta. She was very friendly and very well informed and guided us through the city and its fascinating history in a really engaging and often humorous manner, always ready to answer questions and offer helpful suggestions. Highly recommended!Fantastic 3 hour tour

cherylmcj

(About local Victoria)

6 February 2025

Victoria is very professional and friendly, telling us many stories along with interesting facts along the way. We tasted lovely local food and drink and all the communication when arranging was perfect. Victoria also gave us her WhatsApp and we could message her for recommendations afterwards too - all her recommendations were great and she helped us with an itinerary for the next day too. Thank you Victoria Lovely friendly and fun

Sher

(About local Victoria)

17 January 2025

We had an interesting time with Victoria yesterday. We had booked a walking food tour of Vallatta as we thought that would offer a different experience to just a walking tour. We were not disappointed! It was a marvellous morning discovering the food history of the capital. I would really recommend Victoria ( her knowledge was amazing!) and this tour. Don’t have breakfast. You are going to be nibbling all morning! Highly recommended. Fantastic food tour of Vallatta

alexandra.herden

(About local Victoria)

7 January 2025

We did a three hour tour with Victoria. She was extremely friendly, well informed and sympathetic guide. Thank you very much Victoria!Great guide

Margaret🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Victoria)

31 December 2024

Victoria was a fantastic guide! She was able to share so much knowledge about the city and explain how the food developed within the country. We were able to try so many different bites and treats. She was very personable and shared information about food traditions you don't see at local restaurants. I would highly recommend Victoria. She was a great guide and felt like a friend by the end of the tour.Excellent Tour

ianlivingston🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

24 November 2024

Victoria was an excellent guide. Arrived promptly, good tour, wide and deep knowledge and friendly. Would definitely recommend. Definitely recommend

Annette🇺🇸 United States

(About local Victoria)

18 November 2024

Vicky shared her extensive knowledge with us and had lots of great suggestions for further exploring. So interesting!

Mandy🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Victoria)

17 November 2024

Victoria was our energetic, engaging and delightful guide who led us on two separate walks during our time in Valletta - a Valletta Kickstart tour and an in-depth walking tour of Mdina and Rabat. Her amazing knowledge of Malta and its history is indeed impressive, and she passionately conveyed this during the tours. Her explanations and descriptions really helped us gain an understanding into the heart of this beautiful country - and the events that have shaped it. She also gave us many brilliant tips and suggestions for the rest of our time in Valletta - invaluable to get all this from a local! Thank you, Victoria! We will definitely be recommending you to all our family and friends!An Amazing Guide - Highly recommend!!

Jen

(About local Victoria)

16 November 2024

Amazing experience. Victoria was brilliant and had so much knowledge. Could not have asked for more

Julie🇨🇭 Switzerland

(About local Victoria)

10 November 2024

My family and I did a Valletta tour with Victoria . She was super friendly and very informative. The city is beautiful with so much history and Victoria had great stories and was able to provide a lot of information. I would highly recommend her ! Great 2 hours spent with Victoria !

Tiago

(About local Victoria)

31 October 2024

Victoria was very helpfuk, very knowledgeable and gave us an overall great tour. We highly recommend her!Excellent introduction to Valletta

Magnus🇸🇪 Sweden

(About local Victoria)

27 October 2024

We have been to Malta and Valletta before. Victoria was fast in finding out what would be an adjustment of the tour that would make it extra interesting for us. We got a lot of tips what to do on our own when we come back next time. Also the tour itself was excellent. We can highly recommend this tour and Victoria as a guide. Modified tour

Chrystal🇨🇦 Canada

(About local Victoria)

25 October 2024

We spent an amazing afternoon with Victoria guiding us through the historical core. She is very knowledgable about Malta, with the right mix of history and legend to help everything make sense. She knows so much history about all the buildings! We had asked her to show us a few specific things (including local pastries), which she did and showed us much more. She also made great recommendations for other things to do while we were in the city. Thanks Victoria, we had an amazing time!Victoria + Malta = Fabulous!

Tracey🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

22 October 2024

Victoria was knowledgeable, interesting and informative as we walked around the city. We learnt a lot about the history, architecture, culture and family life of the island. Would thoroughly recommend.Great tour of Valletta

j4wqtcgg5c🇨🇦 Canada

(About local Victoria)

30 September 2024

We did a historical tour around the city of Valletta. She was very informative and provided us with details of all the amazing history of the city and Malta. We hit all the highlights of the city, as well as some back street gems. I would highly recommend a tour with Victoria.Excellent

Stephen🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Victoria)

25 September 2024

Our group had a fantastic time with Victoria on our walking and food tour. Victoria was engaging and informative and provided a great history of Valetta. Victoria took time to get to know all of us on an individual basis. As a group we shared many of a laugh, over some local cuisine and beverages. Informative and fun

Sonja🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Victoria)

18 September 2024

Victoria is an extremely nice lady with a lot of knowledge about Valetta. She gave a good overview, jumping from one topic to the other, which made it kind of interesting. Unfortunately, it was extremely hot, so it was not that much fun to walk around. But that was not Victorias fault. She also gave us a few helpful tips for restaurants to visit and even walked us to our first reservation. Really nice. Crazy little walk

Colin 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

12 September 2024

Victoria was a polite and informative guide. We had an easy pace around the whole of Valletta with Victoria explaining the history of the island and pointing out the history of significant buildings from the Knights Templar to the British.Victoria recommended we go back in our own time to see at leisure a number of buildings, eg Cathedral and Hospital or underground tunnels. An enjoyable and relaxing tour Thanks again.Valletta tour

Andrew🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

10 September 2024

Victoria was delightful company and gave us the greatest insight of Valletta that we could have hoped for. Given all the things she shared with us we have our entire week full of things to do. Highly recommend everyone who is visiting to spend some time with a guide like Victoria. Thank you. Fabulous tour

Karin🇧🇪 Belgium

(About local Victoria)

7 September 2024

Onze gidse Victoria was historisch zeer goed gedocumenteerd. Aanstekelijk enthousiasme.Zeer gedocumenteerde rondleiding

Renarta🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

27 August 2024

We really enjoyed our tour with Victoria. She showed us some great places for food and drink. Communications were great. Would recommend. Brilliant fun

Deirdre

(About local Victoria)

21 July 2024

We had a wonderful morning with Victoria. She provided an interesting and engaging insight to the history of Malta and Valletta . Victoria gave us an insight into Malta from a local perspective. She provided great info on where to eat and places we should return to. Thank you Victoria for a great tour. Deirdre WalshGreat time with Victoria

Michael🇬🇧 United Kingdom

(About local Victoria)

13 July 2024

Vicky guided us through the beautiful streets of Valletta on a wonderful tour of its history and culture. A great tour from an engaging and informative host. I would highly recommend. Walking tour of Valletta with Victoria

Evert🇨🇭 Switzerland

(About local Victoria)

11 July 2024

Vicky met us in Valetta and showed us aroud the not so touristy spots which we enjoyed greatly. Lots of history and little details made for a wonderful walk. The only thing to improve would perhaps be to indeed guide for the full 3 hours. She had to return to her family but left us with a great recommendation for a lunch!A lovely walk!

Stephen

(About local Victoria)

10 June 2024

Victoria is extremely knowledgeable, and she was able to accommodate our schedule to allow us to see the highlights in three hours.Malta with Victoria

CHRISTINA🇬🇷 Greece

(About local Victoria)

26 May 2024

We loved our walking tour of Malta with very nice Victoria, who has deep knowledge of the history of her country and also the gift of "putting you in" all the interesting details through the years. Victoria was exactly what we had in mind, when we booked the tour! We highly recommend her, as a guide and as a personality!Wonderful walking tour!

Jan🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Victoria)

5 May 2024

Gute Mischung aus geschichtlichem Überblick und Details.Runde Sache

caroline🇲🇹 Malta

(About local Victoria)

26 April 2024

The tour was wonderful! Our team liked everything very very much ❤️ Victoria is a wonderful guide who knows her business very well! I'm sure we'll use her services more than once. Thank you Victoria 🫶🏻

Gayle 🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Victoria)

21 April 2024

Victoria is an engaging and knowledgeable guide, sparkling with passion for her homeland. We learned so much from her, asked all our questions and had some laughs too. She also very kindly adapted the tour for our requests and for my husband’s mobility issues. A perfect tour

Dagmar🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Victoria)

20 March 2024

We had a very informative tour of Valetta with Victoria and learned a lot about the History of Malta and the Knights. Victoria also gave us great tips about restaurants and other places to visit in our own time. Perfect start to our first visit to Malta!Excellent professional guide in Valetta

Ali🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates

(About local Victoria)

7 February 2024

I had one of the most beautiful experiences in Malta with Victoria, a professional tour guide, excellent timing, a comprehensive explanation of all the tourist and historical information, great experience. Victoria helped me a lot in understanding Malta in a special way. Thank you, Victoria, for the wonderful time. It was an honor to get to know you, and I hope... We meet soonOne of the most beautiful trips in Malta

Hans🇩🇪 Germany

(About local Victoria)

2 January 2024

We really enjoyed the tour with Victoria. She gave us interesting and amusing information about Valletta and its history and insights of the Order of knights of of St John. Thank you very much for some nice insights into the culture of Malta! We can highly recommend Viktoria.Very interesting and entertaining tour

Danielle🇧🇪 Belgium

(About local Victoria)

1 January 2024

Heel correct, aangename vertelster, heel familiaal in omgang. Top!!!Heel aangenaam

Ulrich

(About local Victoria)

30 December 2023

We had a great time with Victoria - she is very knowledgeable and open minded. Victoria showed us in 3 hours the essentials of Valletta. It was really a great experience - many thanks! Gabi, Heidi, Matthias and UlrichGreat experience

Maria🇺🇸 United States

(About local Victoria)

29 September 2023

We took a tour of Valletta with Vicky. I could say this made all the difference. She is polite, experienced, patient (I stopped many times to take photos). She showed us and explained all the highlights of the city. She knows the history and details of monuments, churches and even the best places to eat. Unfortunately she was busy most of the days we spent there, otherwise we would have scheduled other tours with her. I highly recommend her.Amazing

Sue🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Victoria)

19 August 2023

Thank you Vicky for a fantastic morning – it was the perfect way to start our stay in Valletta. Your knowledge & passion for the history of Malta & its art was outstanding & clearly evident. Visiting the amazing St.Johns Cathedral with you was the icing on the cake – we loved hearing all of the interesting stories you had to tell – we are sure touring by ourselves would not have been anywhere as good! Finishing the tour at the Upper Barraka Gardens for the 12noon gun salute seemed the appropriate way to end – with a big bang! We cannot recommend touring around this beautiful city with you anymore highly. Thanks again – Sue & GeoffA Must Do Tour With Vicky!

ADRIENNE 🇦🇺 Australia

(About local Victoria)

4 August 2023

Victoria was lovely knowledgeable and interesting. We learnt so much about Malta’s past and present and she gave us really good tips of locals places to go and restaurants. All in all my family had a great morning with Victoria and I highly recommend her to any one wanting to know more about Malta. Thanks Victoria. Fantastic tour