Adjacent to Mdina, this suburban town with its narrow winding streets is full of old houses, churches and convents. Just outside Mdina’s fortification walls and on the periphery of Rabat is the Roman Villa with a small museum. Mosta The Rotunda at Mosta is one of the most conspicuous churches in Malta. The churh in the form of the Pantheon in Rome, was deigned by George Grognet de Vasse and constructed between 1833-1860. During World War II this church miraculously survived and aerial attack when a bomb pierced the dome and ricocheted inside the church without exploding.

St. Paul's Grotto, Rabat, is a complex of caves, a church, and a museum that mark the traditional spot where the Apostle was held after he was shipwrecked on the island of Malta. St. Paul's Church was originally a parish church under the jurisdiction of the cathedral of Mdina, but in 1902 Rabat and Mdina became two separate parishes; the parish of St. Paul's attained the status of a Collegiate Church in 1962. The archives are located partially in the Parish Church and partially in the Wignacourt Collegiate Museum (a former convent on the site.)