Ta' Ħaġrat Temples

Archaeological Site

Archaeological Site · Mellieħa, Malta 35.9186°N 14.3686°E

Why you should go

Ninety seconds on Ta' Ħaġrat Temples

Cost

TicketedTickets not sold on site

Effort

5 min on footFrom the closest bus stop

Access

Central MġarrTriq San Pietru

Tickets

Where do you buy tickets for Ta' Ħaġrat Temples?

Heritage Malta sells tickets online and at any other Heritage Malta museum or site with a ticketing booth, but not at Ta' Ħaġrat itself. Heritage Malta Members and Heritage Malta Passport holders enter free.

Combo ticket

Can you visit Ta' Ħaġrat and Skorba temples together?

Yes. The two sites lie roughly a kilometre apart, on the edge of Mġarr, and one combo ticket, bought online from Heritage Malta, covers admission to both temple sites.

By bus

How do you get to Ta' Ħaġrat Temples by bus?

The closest bus stop is five minutes' walk from the site on Triq San Pietru. Heritage Malta points to the public transport journey planner on the site page.

Mġarr's village centre holds two megalithic temples, the larger one from the Ġgantija phase, 3600 to 3200 BC. Pair them with Skorba, on the edge of the same village.

What makes it special

Ta' Ħaġrat consists of two megalithic structures, a larger temple and a smaller one, and both are well preserved. They rank amongst the world's oldest religious sites and belong to the same UNESCO World Heritage listing as Ġgantija, Ħaġar Qim, Mnajdra, Skorba and Tarxien.

The temples are built entirely of local limestone. Before the digs of the 1920s, the site was a circular mound of stones under a very large carob tree, in a field used for farming.

Look at the façade of the larger temple. Its characteristics resemble those of the nearby Ta' Skorba complex, so seeing both sites on one outing lets you compare the two temple fronts side by side.

Visiting

In Mġarr village, the Mġarr Farmers Bar sells tickets every day of the week, while the Mġarr Local Council office sells them on weekday and Saturday mornings.

Il-Barri Restaurant and Il-Gastronawt in Mġarr also sell tickets, though both close on Mondays, so on a Monday use the farmers bar or the council office.

If you drive, head for Mġarr, in the northwest of Malta. Visitors report there is no car park at the site, so expect to leave the car on a nearby road and walk the last stretch.