🟡 Basilica of St. George: Gozo’s golden heartbeat There are places that you enter and immediately know: „I will never forget this again.“ The Basilica of San Ġorġ in Victoria is just such a room, a baroque power plant on the scale of an island. 💛 Why „Golden Church“? Because everything here really shines: marble, gilded altars, chapels that look like small stages. Gozo may be small but St. George thinks in big gestures. 🎨 Art history in a confined space Vittorio Cassar provided the architecture, and inside once hangs the entire Maltese art history: Erardi, Zahra, Calì, Preti – and in the center the statue of St. George of Azzopardi (1838), one of the most important on the island. 🔥 A detail that hardly anyone knows In Victoria, two mighty churches are only a few minutes‘ walk apart: St. George’s Basilica and the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary. And there has been a rivalry between these two communities for generations, so far that each has founded its own music association an
🟡 Basilica of St. George: Gozo’s golden heartbeat There are places that you enter and immediately know: „I will never forget this again.“ The Basilica of San Ġorġ in Victoria is just such a room, a baroque power plant on the scale of an island. 💛 Why „Golden Church“? Because everything here really shines: marble, gilded altars, chapels that look like small stages. Gozo may be small but St. George thinks in big gestures. 🎨 Art history in a confined space Vittorio Cassar provided the architecture, and inside once hangs the entire Maltese art history: Erardi, Zahra, Calì, Preti – and in the center the statue of St. George of Azzopardi (1838), one of the most important on the island. 🔥 A detail that hardly anyone knows In Victoria, two mighty churches are only a few minutes‘ walk apart: St. George’s Basilica and the Cathedral of the Assumption of Mary. And there has been a rivalry between these two communities for generations, so far that each has founded its own music association an