Qormi
Qormi or Citta Pinto is a town of Malta of 18.553 inhabitants (2002). It is located at the south-west of Valetta and profits from a climate of the type Méditerranéen, with hot and dry days, sunny summers and short and fresh winters. The close cities are Marsa, Luqa and Żebbuġ. Qormi is advantageously located along main roads reilant Valetta at Mdina.
Patron saint of Qormi is Saint Georges and Saint Sebastien. For two weeks during the summer, the city celebrates its owners; it is also known for its processions of the Good Friday which gather year in year out more than 500 participants.
People as lived already the sector far as the Bronze Age. A certain number of tombs discovered indicate that the Phénicien S made exchanges with the local population there. At the fifteenth century, Qormi became one of the first parishes of Malta and with then the largest church of the country.
The population of the island increased at the eighteenth century and Emanuel Pinto de Fonseca, Grand Master of the Ordre of Malta, declared it officially town of May 25th 1743. Like most of the center of Malta, Qormi densément is densément populated.
Qormi current is the host the station radio operator Bastjanizi FM, the Qormi Basketball Club, one of the best clubs of Malta, the Qormi Hockey Club and a club of Football, the Qormi FC.
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