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Sliema

What is there

Worth seeing in and around Sliema

10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.

  1. 01
    University of Malta

    University in Malta

    2 km · Wikipedia
  2. 02
    St. John's Co-Cathedral

    Cathedral in Valletta, Malta

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  3. 03
    National Library of Malta

    National library

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  4. 04
    Grandmaster's Palace

    Palace

    1.9 km · Wikipedia
  5. 05
    Our Lady of Victory Church

    Church in Valletta, Malta

    2 km · Wikipedia
  6. 06
    Fort Ricasoli

    Fort in Malta

    2.7 km · Wikipedia
  7. 07
    Church of St Catherine of Italy, Valletta

    Church building in Valletta, Malta

    2 km · Wikipedia
  8. 08
    St Paul's Pro-Cathedral

    Cathedral

    1.6 km · Wikipedia
  9. 09
    Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel

    Church in Valletta, Malta

    1.7 km · Wikipedia
  10. 10
    National Museum of Archaeology

    Archaeology museum in Valletta, Malta

    1.9 km · Wikipedia

Ranked by the number of language editions of Wikipedia with an article on each, from Wikidata; the sentences are the openings of those articles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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Getting to Sliema

Airports
Malta (MLA), 7 km · Catania-Fontanarossa (CTA), 180 km · Falcone–Borsellino (PMO), 281 km
Stations
Ħamrun, 3.1 km · Grand Harbour, 2.5 km · Marsamxett Harbour, 1.3 km
  • Catania → Sliema
    183 km · quickest by road, 4h 35m · €22–31
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  • Palermo → Sliema
    265 km · quickest by road, 7h 7m · €35–48
    GuideToday
  • Tripoli → Sliema
    357 km · quickest by air, 5h 3m · $200–300
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Not yet researched

No local-transport research exists yet for Sliema

Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Sliema. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.

What Wikivoyage says about moving around
  • Get inA ferry regularly (each half hour between 08:00 and 18:00 and later on special occasions such as Notto Bianco) crosses the harbour between Sliema and Valletta.
  • Get inA one-way ticket for the five-minute journey costs about €1.20; there are also two or three water taxis plying the same route.

From Wikivoyage: Sliema, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-06.

The nearest places where the work is done
  1. 01
    MljetHR

    9 ways of moving, 28 sources

    801 km
  2. 02
    KorčulaHR

    9 ways of moving, 33 sources

    816 km
  3. 03
    HvarHR

    8 ways of moving, 27 sources

    825 km
  4. 04
    MykonosGR

    12 ways of moving, 23 sources

    980 km
  5. 05
    Mount AthosGR

    9 ways of moving, 21 sources

    981 km

If you know how people move in Sliema – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.

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