Sliema Ferries Terminal
Busy harbourfront ferry landing with boats across Marsamxett Harbour and views of the fortified skyline.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Sliema Ferries Terminal in Valletta's harbour follows a Maltese folk song of unknown origin about an old captain crossing Marsamxett Harbour, and the singer Freddie Portelli who made it a party favourite. It reaches back to Julius Goldseller's first steamers of the eighteen eighties and the rowing water taxis before them, and to the week in twenty eighteen when musicians played aboard the ferries. Best heard on the quay, watching the boats come and go.
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