Marsaxlokk Harbour
Fishing harbour crowded with brightly painted wooden boats, each bearing protective eyes on its bow.
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This guide to Marsaxlokk Harbour, the fishing port southeast of Valletta, begins on an August weekend in twenty twenty-four, with a marching band, a parish feast and a statue of Our Lady of Pompeii. It follows the rituals a fishing village built against the sea, from a noblewoman's storm vow in the eighteen-nineties to the painted eyes on the bows of its wooden boats. Best heard on the quay, looking down at the moored luzzus.
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