More Christmas Lights from Malta

A decorated street in the town of Mosta.

These are only a few photos of street decorations at night. The electricity bill must be exorbitant during these weeks, but people don’t care as long as they cheer themselves and everyone who passes by their houses and drive or walk through these colorfully lit streets. The Government and some local Councils help defray the cost of the electricity bill, but private homes are on their own.

A Baroque church in Sliema framed by lit stars, photo taken from Valletta

Tomorrow we’ll visit inside some of the churches that are dressed at their finest during these weeks with the nativity prominently displayed and plenty of presepios to admire and appreciate. The presepio is the nativity or crèche or crib, and other ways to describe it but the original term is presepio and presepju in Maltese, depicting usually the entire town of Bethlehem.

The main street in Valletta, crowded with holiday shoppers