Administrative responsibility is distributed between the local councils and the central government in Valletta.

* March 28 – The foundation stone of Valletta ( Malta's Capital City ) is laid by Grand Master Jean de la Valette.

* 1283 – July 8 – At the naval Battle of Malta at Valletta, an Angevin fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta is defeated by the fleet of Roger of Lauria.

* July 8 – At the naval Battle of Malta at Valletta, an Angevin fleet sent to help put down a rebellion on Malta is defeated by the fleet of Roger of Lauria.

The capital is Valletta.

Valletta is the capital of Malta, colloquially known as Il-Belt () in Maltese.

A cruise-liner terminal is located along the old seawall of the Valletta Waterfront that Grandmaster Manuel Pinto de Fonseca built.

The Parish Church of St Augustine () is contemporary to the creation of Valletta and its foundation stone was laid in 1571.

Opposite the Jews ' Sally Port () in Valletta is the Auberge de Bavière built in 1696 ).

The palace is open to the public ; it is the only occupied aristocratic residence in Valletta open to the public.

There is also a large top floor salon with painted walls and a wooden beamed ceiling, currently displaying plans by Renzo Piano for the renovation of the entrance to Valletta.

This is part of a project to renovate the entrance to Valletta.

It is Laparelli, succeeded by Maltese architect Gerolamo Cassar, who masterminded the plan of Valletta as we see it today.

While the restoration of St James Cavalier was intended as the first phase in a larger project aiming to radically alter Valletta, it has so far been halted at planning stages and is the subject of much local controversy.

The present City Gate ( Bieb il-Belt ) is the fourth to have stood at the entrance to Valletta.

A new city gate is now part of the renovation schemes in Valletta.

The Valletta Waterfront, in nearby Floriana, is composed of nineteen 250 year old warehouses built by Grand Master Pinto, stretching along the water's edge and the Quay Wall.

One of the most imposing buildings in Valletta is the former " Sacra Imfermeria " of the Order of St John of Jerusalem, now popularly known as the Mediterranean Conference Centre.

Valletta is the scene of the Maltese Carnival, held in February leading up to Lent.

* Saint Dominic's feast is celebrated in Valletta on August 4 or before

* In the popular computer strategy game, Age Of Empires III, Valletta and its surrounding areas are featured as the base of the main protagonist, Morgan Black, and is the setting for the first two levels of the game.

* Valletta is the birthplace of popular comic book character Corto Maltese, created by Italian artist Hugo Pratt.

* Valletta is featured in the video game Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Conviction.

Valletta is served by a fleet of electric taxis which transport riders from 10 points in Valletta to any destination within the city.

Kalkara is regularly served by scheduled buses operated by Arriva Malta on Route number 3 which connects Kalkara directly to the capital Valletta.

Bonaparte demanded that his fleet be permitted entry to the fortified harbour of Valletta, and when the demand was refused the French general responded by ordering a large scale invasion of the Maltese Islands, overrunning the defenders after 24 hours of skirmishing.

In particular, British ships cut Malta off from France, aided by the rebellion among the native Maltese population that forced the French garrison to retreat to Valletta and shut the gates.

St Jerome, by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio, 1607, at St John's Co-Cathedral, Valletta, Malta

A seaplane service operated by HarbourAir Malta flies daily scheduled flights between the Grand Harbour in Valletta and Mġarr harbour in Gozo.

Pope St Pius V also helped financially in the construction of the city of Valletta, Malta's capital city by sending his military engineer Francesco Laparelli to design the fortification walls.

Re-enactment of 16th century military drills conducted by the Knights of St. John, Fort Saint Elmo, Valletta, Malta, 2005.

After several failed attempts by the locals to retake Valletta, they asked the British for assistance.

The City of Valletta was officially recognised as a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1980.

The official name given by the Order of Saint John was Humilissima Civitas Valletta — The Most Humble City of Valletta, or Città Umilissima in Italian.

The foundation stone of Valletta was laid by the Grandmaster of the Order, Jean Parisot de la Valette on 28 March 1566.

When Benjamin Disraeli, future British Prime Minister, visited the city in 1830, he described it as " a city of palaces built by gentlemen for gentlemen ," and remarked that " Valletta equals in its noble architecture, if it does not excel, any capital in Europe ," and in other letters called it " comparable to Venice and Cádiz " and " full of palaces worthy of Palladio.

Our Lady of Victories Church was the first building completed in Valletta, built by the Knights of Malta between 1573 and 1578.

Numerous other Roman Catholic churches within Valletta include Our Lady of Pilar Church, the Carmelite Church, Our Lady of Liesse Church, St. James Church, St. Barbara Church ( offering services in French, English and German ), Our Lady of Damascus ( a Byzantine Rite Catholic church ), St. Lucy Church, St. Roch Church, St. Catherine of Italy Church ( offering services in Italian ), St. Nicholas Church ( known as the ' Church of All Souls '), St. Catherine of Alexandria Church and the Parish Church of Saint Mary of Porto Salvo and Saint Dominic, accredited the first basilica in Malta in the Bolla Pont by Pope Pius V.

A watchtower overlooking the Valletta Bus Terminus The Phoenicians erected a tower on the site now occupied by the city, a tower that the Greeks and Romans also used.

The vast majority of buses on Malta depart from a large circular terminus in Valletta.

Between 1883 and 1931 Malta had a railway line that connected the capital city of Valletta to the army barracks at Mtarfa / Mdina and a number of towns and villages.

* Malta: Policemen have started testing Segways on patrol in Valletta.

* National Museum of Fine Arts in Valletta, Malta, 1997

Its collection spans the personal libraries of the Knights of Malta ( also the archives and treasury manuscripts of that order ), including archives from the medieval dei Giurati of Mdina and Valletta.

With the setting up of the new Public Library in Floriana in 1976, the Library in Valletta was officially designated as the " National Library of Malta " and became solely a research and reference Library.

* Much of Nicholas Rinaldi's novel The Jukebox Queen of Malta take place in Valletta.

Paul Cremona OP., Archbishop of Malta comes from Valletta

* The Marquise in Our Little Life at the Manoel Theatre in Valletta, Malta and the Pembroke Theatre, Croydon, 1961

* Our Lady of Mount Carmel Sanctuary, Valletta, Malta

* Parish Church of Our Lady of Porto Salvo, Valletta, Malta

* Church of Our Lady of Liesse, Valletta, Malta

* BoV-Bank of Valletta, a bank in Malta.